A needle-free vaccine protected more than 70 percent of visitors to Mexico and Guatemala from traveler's diarrhea, popularly known as Montezuma's Revenge, researchers reported on Wednesday.
Even if travelers did get infected with the stomach bug, Iomai Corp.'s experimental vaccine patch prevented severe illness, the researchers reported in the Lancet medical journal.
"I think it's one of the most exciting new developments in travel medicine," said Dr. Herbert DuPont of the University of Texas in Houston, who helped test the vaccine.
"People could buy this and put it on themselves whenever they take a trip. It is the most convenient form of immunization I have ever seen," DuPont said in a telephone interview.
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
At Last, Revenge Against Montezuma
Take that, Montezuma. Travel to the south may never be the same.
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