In fact, a single elephant bird egg is about the equivalent of 120 normal chicken eggs.
Researchers at these centers have developed alternatives to chicken eggs and new delivery methods.
The current virus incubation process uses chicken eggs, requiring vaccinemakers to order, up to a year in advance, painstakingly chosen chicken eggs.
Considerable evidence has accumulated that the practice of producing seasonal vaccines in chicken eggs is cumbersome and sometimes ineffective.
All of the vaccines currently being produced are made from chicken eggs, which is unlikely to change in the near future.
India banned shipments of US farm products, including poultry meat and chicken eggs, in 2007 to prevent the spread of avian flu.
Fortunately Chiron, Sanofi-Aventis and others are avidly pursuing new, more flexible incubation techniques that will replace chicken eggs with vats of animal or human cells.
All influenza vaccines are made by growing influenza virus particles in chicken eggs before treating them in a way to kill (inactivate) or weaken the viruses.
Nonetheless, several companies are already far along in the development of quicker, more efficacious vaccine-making processes, including, for example, the use of cell cultures instead of chicken eggs.
Novartis, for instance, recently won FDA approval for FlucelVax, which uses animal cell culture instead of traditional manufacturing that uses chicken eggs, a faster production process that can hasten stockpiling.
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The archaic technology for making them, which involves injecting influenza virus into chicken eggs and separating out the resulting antibodies, only allows for a few flu strains to be included and they must be picked far in advance.
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If you want to make and sell a cake, for instance, you might need a cow for the milk and a chicken for the eggs.
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Savory custard: She mixes the flowers with eggs, chicken stock, soy sauce and diced shitake mushrooms.
Lucas eats organic dog food and Michelle's home-cooked dog meals -- boiled eggs, chicken, peas and carrots.
Again, the government tried to fix this problem with price controls on core edibles like eggs, chicken and bread.
France began withdrawing from its shops Belgian eggs and chicken suspected of contamination.
First he worked to establish a community garden and set up a communal chicken coop to provide eggs for people in the area.
One summer his father made him take a job on a farm where he had to clean up chicken excrement and sort eggs on a conveyor belt.
As part of her morning duties, Carolina reaches into the chicken shed to look for eggs.
Highlights: a mosaic of fruits de mer, scallops with quail eggs, roast chicken for two, a bitter chocolate mousse with ginger, and tarte Tatin.
Dirt almost always equates to chicken manure and, if the eggs are produced in a free-range system, other raw agricultural commodities that hens might pick up from roaming freely.
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Ted Giannoulas was a student at San Diego State University in the early 1970s when he accepted a gig to don a chicken suit and hand out Easter eggs to kids at the San Diego Zoo.
Ms. Louis's elevated takes on comforting dishes, such as baked eggs with cream and brick-roasted chicken with shoestring potatoes, have earned her critical acclaim.
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They vary from day to day, but you're sure to find chicken or beef rendang, sambal squid, fried and boiled eggs, beef lung, spicy beef and potato croquettes.
There are other Gallic touches - the loft extension has a chicken coop, so that contestants can have the highest quality eggs and poultry and a vegetable garden.
Backyard farmers focus on texture and taste, and on new breeds of chicken known as Easter Eggers, that lay blue, pink or violet eggs.
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