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Thanks I was not aware of that

• shagie 4y ago
  There's a good page on how the traditional flu vaccines are made at https://www.cdc.gov/flu/prevent/how-fluvaccine-made.htm https://www.cdc.gov/flu/prevent/how-fluvaccine-made.htm One of the "this is concerning" things with the traditional chicken egg based version is that they are chicken eggs. https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/27/health/chicken-egg-flu-vaccine-intl-hnk-scli/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/27/health/chicken-egg-flu-vaccin... and an amusing video on it from Half as Interesting - https://youtu.be/F0qD5argOHE https://youtu.be/F0qD5argOHE The corresponding part is that they are chickens and you've likely heard about the price of eggs recently ( https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/01/as-egg-prices-soar-the-bloodiest-bird-flu-outbreak-in-us-history-drags-on/ https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/01/as-egg-prices-soar-t... ). There is good reason to be looking at alternative ways to creating vaccines.