Nobody knows. But, someone does suspect this is the case. (If it is true, and we don't know, it pertains to LAST YEARs flu shot, and may or may not pertain to this year's flu shot.)
However, it would seem that the proprietary publication process is keeping the information in private for now. David Dobbs has the story.
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