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Physiology & Medicine / Re: Do Flu vaccines increase the risk of pandemic flu?
« on: 06/01/2016 00:07:57 »The 2009 flu pandemic vaccines (H1N1) was a genetically-modified recombinant virus to generate monoclonal antibodies from low reactors (virus-like-particles).
No, that's not right.
No vaccine elicits monoclonal antibody production; that's something that happens in a test-tube under carefully managed conditions.
Vaccines elicit a polyclonal response; that is, they stimulate a broadly neutralising antibody response which, in the case of the split flu vaccine, recognises a range of epitopes.
Flu vaccine strains are, by definition, all man-made because they are manipulated to ensure that they replicate well in eggs, which is the culture vessel used to produce the (majority of) flu vaccines.
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