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What were the modern methods for producing influenza vaccines based on?
Burnet's work to improve virus growing processes in hen's eggs
Pasteur's germ theory
Fleming's discovery of penicillin
Salk's polio vaccine
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Modern methods for producing influenza vaccines were based on Burnet's work to improve virus growing processes in hen's eggs. He demonstrated that influenza virus could be grown in chicken eggs, which could then be harvested and used to make a vaccine. This method was much more efficient than previous methods, which had relied on growing the virus in animals or tissue cultures.
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