Flu vaccine grown in bacteria works like vaccine grown in chicken eggs
Monday, December 6, 2010 - 17:31
in Health & Medicine
Only the fragile chicken egg stands between Americans and a flu pandemic that would claim tens of thousands more lives than are usually lost to the flu each year. Now scientists have taken an important step toward ending the dominance of the oval, showing that an experimental flu vaccine grown entirely in bacteria triggers in people an immune response that would protect them against the flu.