Tainted eggs and flu shots

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As if vaccine makers didn’t have enough trouble pushing people to get annual flu shots. Now, in the wake of the big recall of eggs contaminated with salmonella, some consumers worry that they could get salmonella from eggs used in vaccine manufacturing.

The short answer: they won’t. That’s according to the FDA and to vaccine makers, both of which say that the eggs used for vaccine production come from different sources from those distributed in grocery stores; those eggs are tested for pathogens; and the vaccine-making process includes steps that would kill off salmonella and other bacteria.

“The companies that supply our eggs are exclusive to us and follow much higher levels of biosecurity than companies that supply table eggs,” Donna Cary, a spokeswoman for Sanofi-Aventis, told the Wall Street Journal Health Blog. “The network of farms which supply our eggs are inspected by us and continuously meet rigid guidelines under which the chickens [and] eggs are monitored for any illness.” FDA affirmed flu-vax safety, too, saying that the recall won’t affect flu-shot “production, safety or availability.”

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Holte Ender

Holte Ender will always try to see your point of view, but sometimes it is hard to stick his head that far up his @$$.
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13 years ago

Unfortunately while the rest of us wait for the anti-vaccine idiots to Darwin themselves out, their infected asses will kill off the responsible people’s kids that aren’t old enough to get the vaccine yet.

Melissa
13 years ago

But the FDA can’t protect omlett? Just sayin.

13 years ago

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Jess
13 years ago

Echinacea and vitamin C in overdose numbers is what I will be doing. Not letting any of that crap get into my body.

Jess
Reply to  Holte Ender
13 years ago

Not really. Because of my cancer a while back I am supposed to get these, you know having the deficient immune system and all.

Jess
Reply to  Holte Ender
13 years ago

No worries, it’s just something you gotta deal with like finding that first grey hair or that first wrinkle. Part of life, you deal or you don’t. I deal, because I am too ornery to die I have been told.

13 years ago

I for one welcome our new bacterial overlords.

SJ
Reply to  Holte Ender
13 years ago

“Hello my name is Kang, and this is my sister Kodos…”

but seriously, remember when that fat head Rush Limbaugh was telling everyone not to get Flu shots last year because a certain administration said it was a good idea?
…I’m just counting the minutes.
-SJ

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