{"id":6721,"date":"2024-06-04T19:32:01","date_gmt":"2024-06-05T00:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=6721"},"modified":"2024-06-04T19:32:05","modified_gmt":"2024-06-05T00:32:05","slug":"fighting-bird-flu-the-vaccine-problem-with-chickens-and-eggs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2024\/06\/04\/fighting-bird-flu-the-vaccine-problem-with-chickens-and-eggs\/","title":{"rendered":"Fighting bird flu: The vaccine problem with chickens and eggs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ajc.com\/news\/health-news\/fighting-bird-flu-and-the-problem-with-chickens-and-eggs\/PVKZ7YOXAZDHPNJRAPN3WQ7TDU\/\">Atlanta Journal Constitution<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Even a peep of news about a new flu pandemic is enough to set scientists clucking about eggs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They worried about them in 2005, and in 2009, and they\u2019re worrying now. That\u2019s because millions of fertilized hen eggs are still the main ingredient in making vaccines that, hopefully, will protect people against the outbreak of a new flu strain. \u201cIt\u2019s almost comical to be using a 1940s technology for a 21st-century pandemic,\u201d said Rick Bright, who led the Health and Human Services Department\u2019s Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) during the Trump administration.<\/p>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" style=\"display: none;\" title=\"QaaQpxh uAaiwK TGmaMjmwo  U f\">QaaQpxh uAaiwK TGmaMjmwo  U f<\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Atlanta Journal Constitution Even a peep of news about a new flu pandemic is enough to set scientists clucking about eggs. They worried about them in 2005, and in 2009, and they\u2019re worrying now. That\u2019s because millions of fertilized hen eggs are still the main ingredient in making vaccines that, hopefully, will protect people against [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vaccine-headlines"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6721"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6722,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6721\/revisions\/6722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}