New flu vaccination.

[minkajane]

The FDA has approved a new seasonal flu vax called Agriflu.

The vaccine was approved using an accelerated approval process, the FDA said.

It seems to me that every single vax that has come out in the last several years has been approved by an accelerated approval process. It's like they assume all vaxes are 100% safe, so they test it long enough to make sure it causes antibodies in the blood, then throw it on the market. It's getting ridiculous.

[ASusan]

Saw that this morning.

But seriously, who is working in their marketing dept? [I]agri[I]flu?

Would would inject themselves with a name like agriflu? It even sounds like it's made for animals. Perhaps for pigs, to stem swine flu...(I know it's not for H1N1, but it sure sounds like it).

According to wikipedia, agri comes from the Latin for "a field." So, a field of flu? How fitting...