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October 31, 2005

A Chicken-and-Egg Problem: How to Speed Up Production of Flu Shots (Los Angeles Times)

From Yahoo! News: Top Stories:

A parrot stands in front of pet shop in Bangkok. Fears about avian influenza were already damaging some Asian economies and the impact of a full-scale pandemic would be 'catastrophic', a conference of international health officials has been told(AFP/Pornchai Kittiwongsakul)Los Angeles Times - If bird flu erupts into a pandemic, the world will need a lot of vaccine in a hurry. That would be virtually impossible with the current flu-vaccine manufacturing method, which is little changed since the 1940s.


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Posted by handsnet at October 31, 2005 11:32 PM

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