Here's the real facts:
Why is our 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.
By the way...the lawyer that represented the man in the flu shot law suit
was a young ambulance chaser by the name of
"JOHN EDWARDS".
FindLaw Newsmaker Profiles - John Edwards
... after Edwards won a $6.5M verdict for a baby born with cerbral-palsy, he filed at least 20 similar lawsuits against ... Class Action Against Flu Vaccine Maker ...
http://news.findlaw.com/newsmakers/john.edwards.html
http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/flu/fshrchiron101404cmp.pdf
John Edwards 'Increased the Cost of Medicine', Former Associate Says
Marc Morano
Senior Staff Writer
http://www.crosswalk.com/news/1245515.html
You can't pin this on John Edwards. That link to the right has nothing to do with the person mentioned. There is no indication that this lawsuit had anything to do with Edwards, and it has nothing to do w/ someone getting infected by a flu shot. It's about an SEC violation -- Edwards doesn't do those to my knowledge.
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