The "peace gun" played a crucial role in the early stages of the smallpox eradication program. Unfortunately, because wear and tear often damaged jet injectors, their use required WHO to maintain a ...

By the time we got into the military and ran the gauntlet of basic training injections, we cursed the same medical gods who made us get a plethora of injections (including the dreaded “peanut butter” ...

According to the VA, injectable drug use was one of the most common sources, but Rock blames a device called the jet injector gun. From the '60s all the way up to 1997, the military used it to ...

A: Using an air gun — also called a jet injector — is a fast way to deliver vaccines. But jet injectors were discontinued for mass vaccinations about five years ago because of possible health ...

Jet gun manufacturers alleged that one injector could deliver up to 1,000 injections an hour because syringes didn’t have to get changed out and vials were reused, which saved money. Such ...

A: Using an air gun -- also called a jet injector -- is a fast way to deliver vaccines. But jet injectors were discontinued for mass vaccinations about five years ago because of possible health risks.

In this archive image, a public health clinician uses a jet injector gun to administer a smallpox vaccination into the recipient’s left shoulder during an adult immunization program. (Centers ...

Though it may look like something from a sci-fi movie, the PharmaJet Needle-free Jet Injector is inspired by vaccination guns that have been used since the 1960s, according to the US National ...

Jet injectors and beyond. ... The gene gun or "biojector 2000," a form of jet injector, seems to be the most effective method. This uses pressure to inject DNA into deep layers of the skin.

A patient receives a typhus vaccination from a jet injector at Fort Gordon, Ga., in 1959. The military embraced the needle-free technique of delivering vaccines.