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To: mysterio

No, it is not all made in the same way. Get your facts straight. Here’s some info from one of the President’s favorite websites PMSNBC that says you are incorrect....

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32672322/ns/health-swine_flu/

Shot made with component not licensed in U.S.
It is still unclear, however, what this would mean for the global swine flu supply. Not every drugmaker could simply copy Novartis’ vaccine recipe. Novartis’ vaccine was made using cell culture, while about 90 percent of the world’s flu vaccines are made using chicken eggs.

Their vaccine also included adjuvants, a chemical component used to stretch a vaccine’s active ingredient and essentially make it more efficient. While adjuvants are commonly used in European flu vaccines, there are no licensed flu vaccines in the U.S. or Canada with the ingredients.

There is also limited data on how safe flu vaccines with adjuvants are in pregnant women and children, two of the groups thought most vulnerable in a pandemic, or global epidemic.

The vaccine approved by China did not use an adjuvant, like most of the vaccines being tested in the U.S.

A handful of other major pharmaceuticals, including Sanofi-Aventis SA, GlaxoSmithKline PLC and Baxter International are also conducting trials of their own swine flu vaccines, but have not yet announced results.


37 posted on 09/29/2009 8:00:56 AM PDT by WilliamWallace1999
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To: WilliamWallace1999
Most is grown in eggs, just like the seasonal. Link.
38 posted on 09/29/2009 8:29:29 AM PDT by mysterio
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