Putting all our flu vaccines into one 'egg' basket

By AGENCY

Although there are better ways to make flu vaccines, manufacturers are too heavily invested in the egg-based method to change. — TNS

Even a peep of news about a new flu pandemic is enough to set scientists clucking about eggs.

They worried about them in 2005, and in 2009, and they’re worrying now.

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