Chick Eggs Cannot Yield Enough Vaccine For Pandemic: NYAS Swine Flu Mtg.
Executive Summary
If preparation for a possible pandemic is ever going to be sufficient, drug makers need to push for FDA approval of adjuvants and novel technologies in which influenza vaccines can be created, according to a panel of experts
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