Flu shots?

Undertoad · 03-27-2009, 07:29 AM

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Flu vaccines contaminated with H5N1

Turns out this statement is false. Read the stories carefully. The vaccines are produced in an entirely different country from where the contamination happened.

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Christopher Bona, Baxter's director of global bioscience communications, said the liquid virus product was not a vaccine and was developed for testing purposes only.

jinx · 03-27-2009, 10:25 AM

Yes sorry, I just copied the headline from the first story I read which was from a fairly biased site.

Was hard to find info on, apparently wasn't big enough news for US outlets.

glatt · 03-27-2009, 10:41 AM

Still, it's crazy that Baxter is so sloppy with their procedures that they mixed the two viruses and exposed their own workers to it. If you are working with a virus that is as potentially dangerous as H5N1 you should be careful.

Pie · 03-27-2009, 11:40 AM

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Originally Posted by glatt

Still, it's crazy that Baxter is so sloppy with their procedures that they mixed the two viruses and exposed their own workers to it. If you are working with a virus that is as potentially dangerous as H5N1 you should be careful.

You should see what they do with nuke secrets over at los alamos...

03-27-2009, 10:25 AM	#2
jinx Come on, cat. Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: general vicinity of Philadelphia area Posts: 7,013	Yes sorry, I just copied the headline from the first story I read which was from a fairly biased site. Was hard to find info on, apparently wasn't big enough news for US outlets. __________________ Crying won't help you, praying won't do you no good.

03-27-2009, 10:41 AM	#3
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	Still, it's crazy that Baxter is so sloppy with their procedures that they mixed the two viruses and exposed their own workers to it. If you are working with a virus that is as potentially dangerous as H5N1 you should be careful.

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