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Biotech / Medical : SARS and Avian Flu
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To: kikogrey who wrote (2605)10/12/2005 3:43:22 PM
From: Maurice Winn  Read Replies (1) of 4232
 
What's the problem with just using eggs to make a vaccine?

<Flu vaccine production currently requires the use of millions of chicken eggs. Federal health officials have commissioned studies in which high-tech production methods, using no eggs, are being tested.>

There are millions of eggs in NZ sitting in the supermarket. I can buy them and produce loads of vaccine.

Send the starter kit down and I'll get onto it.

I could take 100,000 of those eggs, get 50,000 hens and they'd each produce 20 more eggs within a year giving 500,000 more hens which the following year would produce 10 million eggs and 5 million hens and those would produce more than enough vaccine for New Zealand.

There are enough eggs right now to heavily limit the spread of H12N8. And we could export vaccine within a year or two.

This northern winter is the crucial winter. By northern winter 2006 we should have enough Tamiflu, Relenza, and vaccine so that H5N1 is stymied.

Mqurice
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