Email from a friend on why we don't have flu vaccine

[madmax]

This was sent to me by a woman I barely know. She knows I support Kerry/Edwards. I got this email from her and her email chain and one on how much it would cost for Secret Service protection for all Kerry's mansion's. So I sent her the cost of Sliverado Savings and Loan scandal which cost taxpayers 1.7 trillion. Now I need your help on this bullshit.

"This from an attorney friend......

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."

[jean]

1. bull. The vaccine we were supposed to get that was contaminated

was produced in the UK by an American based company.

[trotsky]

2. Completely false.

Look on the "What's New" page on Snopes.com.

And then make sure to do a REPLY ALL on that e-mail with the truth.

[Not Me]

3. Snopes.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/business/flushot.asp

[BattyDem]

4. Snopes link

http://www.snopes.com/politics/business/flushot.asp

[madmax]

5. Damn you guys are the BEST!!!!

Thank you - This is the second go round with these wing nuts that I don't even know. And I do reply to all. :loveya: