> > The rest of the story...
> >
> > Subject: Paul Harvey: Why there's no flu vaccine.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> >
> > .......and now you know the rest of the story.
> >
Actually, that is urban legend although there is much truth in the general story. See: snopes.com
No sh!t, is that true?