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Charles Marwick

JAMA. 1984;251(8):1001-1002.

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A new variant of one of the two A-type human influenza viruses has emerged. Sufficiently different from the A-type viruses presently circulating in the United States, it is to be incorporated in next winter's influenza vaccine, a Food and Drug Administration advisory committee has decided.

At the same time, the outbreak of avian influenza that has decimated flocks of chickens in Pennsylvania and that also has appeared in New Jersey, Maryland, and Virginia is threatening the supply of fertilized eggs on which flu vaccine manufacturers depend for growing the virus.

"We don't anticipate being unable to meet our production goals for flu vaccine next year," said Frank Brandon, PhD, of Parke-Davis, Morris Plains, NJ, a division of the Warner-Lambert Company and one of the three US manufacturers of flu vaccine. "However, eggs are in short supply and this is pushing up the price."

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