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Politics : John Kerrys Crimes & Lies -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: PROLIFE who wrote (897)	10/22/2004 5:52:27 PM
From: Captain Jack	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1905

PROLIFE- 1 more down. Sadly they only take them out a few at a time. It is the only way unless or until they stop caring about what the rest of the world thinks. If Arafats friends get really stupid they just may start taking them out by the hundreds one day.

To: PROLIFE who wrote (897)	10/22/2004 5:55:12 PM
From: Captain Jack	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to 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.