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BALTIMORE (AP) - Thin dissolving strips like those used in tiny breath-mints could be a new way to deliver a vaccine for a deadly childhood virus.
Undergraduate students at Johns Hopkins University are working with a vaccine maker to develop a system to provide a strip-based rotavirus vaccine to infants in impoverished areas.
"It's still very early in the process, but the pieces they've come up with have been very encouraging," said Vu Truong, co-founder and chief scientific officer at Aridis Pharmaceuticals, which provided a rotavirus vaccine that is stable at room temperatures.
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