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Though skin in the area should be clean, use of an alcohol swab is optional and if used the skin must be allowed to fully dry to avoid deactivation of the live virus vaccine. The punctures should remain in an area approximately 5 mm in diameter. The needle is then disposed of. When done correctly a trace of blood appears at the vaccination site within 10 to 20 seconds after the procedure.
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between its prongs. Up to one hundred vaccinations can be given from one vial of the reconstituted vaccine. The established technique for smallpox vaccination is to dip the needle in the vaccine, and then perpendicularly puncture a person's upper arm fifteen times rapidly in a small circular area.
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is a narrow steel rod, approximately 5 cm (2 in) long with two prongs at one end. It was designed to hold one dose of reconstituted freeze-dried
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Rubin, Benjamin (1980). "A note on the development of the bifurcated needle for smallpox vaccination".
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The bifurcated needle was created as a more efficient and cost effective alternative to the
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dips a bifurcated vaccination needle into an open vial of smallpox vaccine.
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Type of steel rod used to administer smallpox vaccine
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Smallpox vaccine
hands wearing purple gloves holding on the right an open vial of smallpox vaccine and on the left a bifurcated needle that has a small droplet dose of the vaccine
hospital corpsman
smallpox vaccine
jet injector
Benjamin Rubin
World Health Organization
eradicate smallpox
"Six bifurcated needles for smallpox vaccination | Science Museum Group Collection"
Archived


PMID
7376638
"Smallpox Vaccine Administration"
Archived
Tucker, Jonathan B.
Scourge: The Once and Future Threat of Smallpox
ISBN
9780802139399
OCLC
50734227
"Benjamin A. Rubin"
Archived
Categories
Drug delivery devices
Smallpox eradication
Smallpox vaccines

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