On Friday, the Swiss pharmaceutical giant Novartis announced, it had created an experimental dog kidney cell based technology, which relies on chicken eggs. Too bad for those who are allergic to eggs.
Over thirty countries have reportedly requested supply of the vaccine. In fact the US Dept of Health and Human Services placed a 289 million dollar order with Novartis last month.
Other companies, such as Sanofi Pasteur and Medimmune, are using aborted fetal cell lines as their cell culture. What this means is that concerned families, who may not have used the swine flu vaccine because of the aborted fetal cell line, have a moral choice.
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