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Experts: Antiquated flu vaccine system needs updating
January 14th, 2004
Americans' anxiety over the dwindling supply of flu shots has exposed an antiquated manufacturing system that depends on 90 million fertilized chicken eggs and a 9-month process to produce each year's batch of influenza vaccines. It needn't be that way. Drug companies and academic researchers said they could reduce the lead time and prepare more effective vaccines by incubating the virus in monkey cells rather than eggs - and by using genetic engineering to remove much of the guesswork of preventing a disease that kills an average of 36,000 Americans a year. Government indifference, business resistance and public apathy have...
Source: Biotech Week (2004-01-14)
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