Sharks Killed for Oil Used in Swine Flu Vaccine

Wednesday, December 30, 2009 - 15:28 in Biology & Nature

Millions of doses of the H1N1/09 vaccine contain a substance called squalene, which is extracted from the livers of rare deep-sea sharks caught in the wild, conservationists say.

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