Vaccination gun

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Vaccination gun (with high pressure) in use, 1973
Med-E-Jet vaccination gun, built in 1980
Vaccination gun (with needle), 2007

The vaccination gun is a medical instrument used for serial vaccination , with which an inoculation liquid is applied to the skin and subcutaneous tissue either (as with syringes ) with cannulas or without cannulas at high pressure (approx. 85 MPa ) .

The vaccination gun is used in veterinary medicine for the mass vaccination of animals. The vaccine is dosed continuously. In human medicine , the vaccination gun is hardly used any more, in particular for reasons of sterility, and it also appears to be unsuitable, in particular, for children. At a time when there was great fear of AIDS in 1985 , the Federal Health Office at that time recommended that vaccination guns should be avoided for the time being in the case of serial vaccinations against influenza - at the time it was unclear whether HIV could be transmitted in this way . To prevent the transmission of diseases, the WHO recommended in 2005 not to use them.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karlheinz Lohs, Peter Elstner, Ursula Stephan: Fachlexikon Toxikologie . ISBN 3540273344 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
  2. ↑ Julia Frizen: Vaccination against the blue tongues at the chord tempo. In: Kölnische Rundschau . April 8, 2009, accessed April 29, 2016 .
  3. ↑ ÖKO-Test: Test: Vaccines , January 12, 2004.
  4. ↑ AIDS: Fine Line . In: Der Spiegel . No. 37 , 1985, pp. 221-223 ( online ).
  5. ↑ World Health Organization: Solutions: Choosing Technologies for Safe Injections of July 13, 2005, retrieved from the archive on August 14, 2019.