Existing hospital analysers offer a low-cost method to screen for fake vaccines

Published on February 17, 2026

An international team of researchers led by the University of Oxford and Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust have demonstrated that hospital analysers can be used to identify fake liquid medical products.
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