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WSHM  Meriden company develops new flu vaccine  Posted: Updated:
A new flu vaccine could soon be available at doctors offices
around the country and it was developed in Connecticut.  Dr. Dan
Adams, Protein Sciences in Meriden, said it took years to
develop Flublock, which does not use the flu virus or eggs in
the shot.   The company is currently testing the vaccine at the
product realization lab at Protein Sciences.   Hundreds of
thousands more are now in a warehouse in Kansas, ready to be
processed and shipped. Adams said he hopes to be shipping it out
by the end of the month.  "It's not that the current vaccine
isn't a good product," Adams said. "But, a lot of people don't
want to take it because there's a lot of stuff in there that
isn't related to flu."  Flublock uses an insect virus and DNA
technology to fight the flu, said Adams. Since it doesn't use
eggs or the influenza virus, he said they're hoping more young
people will be willing to ge