No Needle Injections to Fight Bird Flu and More

The Free Injection System is quickly moving forward as an instrument to fight disease in both humans and animals. The system has the ability to adjust pressure and volume to meet a wide variety of conditions for humans with Med-Jet and animals with Agro-Jet. The latter may prove especially important if a pandemic, such as bird flu, breaks out.

Patented by Canada-based Medical International Technologies (MIT), the MedJet Needle-Free Injector has received full certification from the International Organization for Standardization and the Canadian Medical Device Conformity Assessment System.

The certifications permit MIT to market the Needle-Free Injector for human use in all countries other than the U.S. MIT is presently working to complete to U.S. Federal Drug Administration filing, The first is aimed at permitting Med-Jet to be used for injecting anesthesia in a number of situations, including plastic surgery. The second will be to use the Med-Jet-H for mass vaccination in case of a pandemic.

Special features of the virtually pain free Needle-Free Injection System include its ability to provide as many as 800 injections per hour and freedom from potentially deadly needle stick accidents. The Center for Disease Control estimates there are between 600,00 and 800,000 needle stick injuries per year in the U.S. alone. In the fight against Avian Flu, MIT has already shipped Needle-Free Injectors to China and Turkey to help combat the H5N1 strain of the virus.