Dr.WilliamSchaffner, an infectious disease expert at VanderbiltUniversity, said that, right now, some of the safesteggs available to Americans are from smallfarms.
At the eastern edge of the Gold Coast, about 25 miles from Great Neck, this 24-room Spanish-style estate was home to William K Vanderbilt II, great-grandson of the famed railroad industrialist Cornelius Vanderbilt.
It has had National Historic Landmark status since 1963, but its roughly 8, 000 acres remain in private hands. (After Vanderbilt's death in 1914, most of the original 125, 000 acres were sold off by his widow, Edith.) Vanderbilt's grandson William A.V.
"If you wanted to design a system not to use this vaccine, that's the system we have, " says Vanderbilt University infectious disease specialist William Schaffner.