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Yes. This has been possible since the 1990's. In the US recently, the flu vaccine was recently offered as a nasal spray.
There is current research being done to aerosolize several vaccines. Public health officials have an interest in this method due to it being less expensive to produce, more people can receive the vaccine in a shorter time frame, and less ...
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I have reared cockroaches by the thousands, for years. Three species, but mainly the infamous Periplaneta americana which I am sure everyone has at least heard about (see picture at the end).
First of all: Cockroaches do bite, and they have powerful mandibles. This is in the paper below:
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0141226
Many people think they ...
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Millions of people live with cockroaches and there are nearly zero cases of hospitalization, thousands of times more people are admitted for wasp/spider stings, putting marbles in their nose, knife injuries etc.
They may cause damage to food, like rodents, without any serious illnesses unlike rodents.
Here is the only roach attack hospitalization that I ...
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