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I believe people with severe egg allergies avoid some vaccines because of the presence of egg protein - eggs are used as bioreactors to grow the vaccine. Howev
by jpollock 12y ago
I believe people with severe egg allergies avoid some vaccines because of the presence of egg protein - eggs are used as bioreactors to grow the vaccine.
However, it looks like that's only the influenza vaccine, and that's not how the MMR vaccine is produced.
http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vpd-vac/should-not-vacc.htm http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vpd-vac/should-not-vacc.htm
- johnpmayer 12y agoYes, until I outgrew my egg allergy, I could not take certain vaccines. I was too young to remember which ones I could not take. I suppose that I relied on herd immunity for those specific diseases.