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Politics : John Kerrys Crimes & Lies
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To: PROLIFE who wrote (897)10/22/2004 5:55:12 PM
From: Captain Jack  Read Replies (1) of 1905
 
A little research is needed here;
Is this true???

Why is flu vaccine made in the UK and not the US?
The major pharmaceutical companies in the US provided almost 90% of the
nations flu vaccine at one time.
They did this despite a very low profit margin for the product. Basically,
they were doing us a favor.

In the late 80's a man from North Carolina who had received the vaccine got
the flu.
The strain he caught was one of the strains in that years vaccine made by a
US company.
What did he do? He sued and he won. He was awarded almost $5 million!
After that case was appealed and lost, most US pharmaceutical companies
stopped making the vaccine.
The liability out weighed the profit margin.
Since UK and Canadian laws prohibit such frivolous law suits
UK and Canadian companies began selling the vaccine in the US.

Incidentally, the lawyer that represented the man in the flu shot law suit
was John Edwards.
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