Bob Graham video lampoons swine flu vaccine

By at 5 November, 2009, 11:25 am

“So why are we still producing vaccine in chicken eggs?” Bob Graham wants to know, in a light-hearted video making the rounds through cyberspace. The former Florida senator and governor is trying to make the point that American scientific technology lags behind the demands of 21st century health and national-security needs. His video starts with black-and-white depictions of typewriters, a young Elvis Presley and other scenes from 1955 when he graduated from high school in Miami. America was growing its flu vaccine in chicken eggs, he notes. Flash ahead to the 1970s, when his former Senate colleague Jim Talent graduated from high school. America was still making vaccine in chicken eggs,

Talent says. Flash ahead again to the present day, and sure enough we’re still using the chicken-egg method, the former senators tell us. Graham and Talent – who lead the Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism – are poking fun at the slow and faltering attempts to deter swine flu. But it’s no joke, they say, that our primitive methods indicate a lack of readiness to protect the nation from a variety of potential risks and attacks. They decided to use an entertaining 21st century way to make the point. Enjoy it.

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