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Edited on Tue Oct-26-04 10:00 AM by movie_girl99
i posted a thread last week about a freep in my office spouting shite about the shortage of flu vaccine having something to do with John Edwards. Now i get this from my ex-husband: How the vaccine works: > > Influenza vaccine is produced by growing the virus > in eggs. The > virus is killed and processed to create the vaccine, > which is given by > injection under the skin. The body then produces > antibodies to the virus > over the next two to four weeks. If the immunized > person then comes into > contact with the influenza virus, the antibodies > attack and kill the > virus before it has a chance to cause infection. The > vaccine contains > the 3 most likely strains to be active during the > "flu season". > > Why the shortage: > > Almost half of the nation's flu vaccine will not be > delivered > this year. Chiron, a major manufacturer of flu > vaccine, will not be > distributing any influenza vaccine this flu season. > Chiron was to make > 46-48 million doses vaccine for the United States. > Chiron is a British > company. Recently British health officials stopped > Chiron from > distributing and making the vaccine when inspectors > found unsanitary > conditions in the labs. Some lots of the vaccine > were recalled and > destroyed. > > 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. > Any ideas/advice as to what I can come back at him with?
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