CBS “60 Minutes” gave a tour of the only H1N1 vaccine manufacturing plant in the United States, in Pennsylvania, owned by French company Sanolfi Pasteur. Filmmakers had to don bodysuits and hairnets, and a very young man was supervisor.
The company says it has solved the problem that led to slow vaccine production at first.
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The locations of farms producing eggs for vaccine manufacture is a national security secret.
The segment also showed the recovery of a 15 year old football player from Arkansas who was on a ventilator for 17 days and is only slowly recovering.
Larry King Live, on Monday Nov. 2, presented brief interviews about H1N1 with opposing viewpoints on the vaccine, but also interviewed the parents of a seven year old who died of septic shock. Sanjay Gupta said that deaths in children usually result from complications of staphlycoccal pneumonia, a superbug, resulting in blood poisoning and collapse of circulation. A relapse of a fever that has gone away in a child is a possible warning sign of dangerous bacterial complications.
People over 55 or 60 seem much more resistant, and may have been exposed to a similar virus antigen in the 1940s. Seasonal flu vaccine may boost H1N1 immunity in older people only.
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