The Philadelphia Inquirer (9/4, Avril) reports that the recent avian flu outbreak in the Midwest has driven up egg prices at supermarkets but “health officials say...the supply of certain eggs...used to grow and incubate the flu vaccine for humans” should not be affected. Lynnette Brammer, an epidemiologist with the CDC, said that vaccine manufacturers use “a totally separate supply” of eggs from chickens raised in a controlled environment.
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