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You May Get Future Vaccines via Dental Floss

https://news.ncsu.edu/2025/07/vaccines-via-dental-floss/
16•gmays•6mo ago

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benabbott•6mo ago
Maybe remove the PFAS from the floss as well and you've got a great product.

Now you just have to figure out how to get people to floss :)

daveguy•6mo ago
Plenty of flosses are available without pfas. The flat glide / smooth floss and potentially flavors (unknown - not required to disclose) are the ones with pfas. Wax coated unflavored floss does not use pfas.

Unfortunately, the article [0] states that "flat tape" floss was used as the delivery method. And this is the form of those smooth/glide pfas flosses. Likely the pfas was used as a functional group to bond the vaccine coated particles to the floss.

[0] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41551-025-01451-3

thrill•6mo ago
If there are any future vaccines.