How do you make a vaccine?? Chicken Eggs of course!

Yes, chicken eggs are still being used to grow the virus as they have for the last half century. Some companies believe they could have made enough vaccine by now. In Meriden, Conn., one company has found a way to use cells from caterpillars to make vaccines. "It's a lot like reprogramming your computer. If we tell cells what to make, they make it," said Dan Adams of Protein Sciences Corp. The vaccine is grown in vats and then purified. It's then ready to be injected. The whole process takes about two months. It currently takes five or six months to make vaccines using chicken eggs. Click here for details!