Tainted eggs and flu shots
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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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.
But the FDA can’t protect omlett? Just sayin.
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Echinacea and vitamin C in overdose numbers is what I will be doing. Not letting any of that crap get into my body.
You youngsters can shake off the flu easily, us old folks have to be careful.
Not really. Because of my cancer a while back I am supposed to get these, you know having the deficient immune system and all.
You take care Jess, don’t pay me no mind.
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.
I for one welcome our new bacterial overlords.
Thank you Kent Brockman.
“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
Will be interesting what “Fathead” says this flu season, hopefully “Oh I don’t feel well.”