Travel & Edible Vaccines

However, if we are to maximize their impact on global health, then we need to develop new vaccines for additional disease as well as to improve their supply & delivery, particularly in developing countries. Thus food vaccines might save millions who now die for the lack of access to traditional inoculants. Development of Edible vaccines Creating edible vaccines involves introduction of selected desired gene into plants and then inducing these altered plants to manufacture the encoded proteins. This process is known as transformation & the altered plants are called transgenic plants, like conventional subunit vaccines, edible vaccines are composed of antigenic proteins and are devoid of pathogenic genes. Thus, they have no way of establishing infection, assuring its safety especially in immunocompromised patients.