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Actually, none of this checks out. Where did you look? I hope you'll inform whoever sent you the email so they can tell the others who received it that its false. I looked it up and found this within a few seconds: http://www.snopes.com/politics/business/flushot.asp Some notes from personal experience -- - I've been to Chiron corporate headquarters. They're located in California and always have been - Whether your corporate operations are based overseas or not, if you distribute in the USA, you can be sued. In any case, Chiron is an American company. - Vaccine manufacturers are protected (by law) from lawsuits. This is supposed to prevent shortages. Other details that raised red flags -- - I don't see any specifics about the man who was sued or who he sued - Anything describing a candidate as an "ambulence chaser" is suspicious -Archie On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 12:17:05 -0600, Wendy Siegel <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > I found this about the flu shortage, and so far it checks out: > > Why the Flu vaccine 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 of 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. > > -----Original Message----- > > Paula - Won't you be glad when the election is over.? Now Kerry is > blaming Bush for the contaminated flu vaccine from another country. As > if he went over there and sneezed in it. Where will this nonsense stop? > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] > In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn