Eggs and Vaccines, Article of the day
Posted: Sat Jan 01, 2022 9:25 am
With all the talk of Covid and vaccines, I find it interesting as to what a central role eggs and chickens have played in research, following is an excerpt of an article I read.
"Chickens are also important in producing vaccines. Ernest Pasture came up with the method of making vaccines by growing and inactivating viruses and bacteria in chicken embryo and fertilised chicken eggs. The virus is injected into the allantoic fluid of the egg. This allows the virus to replicate and the fluid that has the viruses are harvested and purified. This method was used to develop vaccines for chickenpox, smallpox, and yellow fever and other infectious diseases. Chicken egg-based vaccine production has been used for a long time and continues to be used along with other methods to produce vaccines."
Link to entire article:
https://www.understandinganimalresearch ... s/chicken/
"Chickens are also important in producing vaccines. Ernest Pasture came up with the method of making vaccines by growing and inactivating viruses and bacteria in chicken embryo and fertilised chicken eggs. The virus is injected into the allantoic fluid of the egg. This allows the virus to replicate and the fluid that has the viruses are harvested and purified. This method was used to develop vaccines for chickenpox, smallpox, and yellow fever and other infectious diseases. Chicken egg-based vaccine production has been used for a long time and continues to be used along with other methods to produce vaccines."
Link to entire article:
https://www.understandinganimalresearch ... s/chicken/
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