A new kind of insect-based flu vaccine has been approved for adults by the Food and Drug Administration. It's the first version that is not grown in eggs, meaning people with egg allergies can receive it.
The FDA announced that the vaccine, called FluBlok and produced by Protein Sciences Corp, is different from other vaccines, as it can be made more rapidly in the event of a pandemic "because it is not dependent on an egg supply or on availability of the influenza virus," Dr. Karen Midthun, M.D., director of the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research at the FDA, said in an agency statement.
Another way it's different? The process of making it involves insect cells.
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