10-26-2004, 05:38
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The rest of the story....
Subject: Flu vaccine - very interesting
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 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.
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10-26-2004, 05:47
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JIHAD! Well done Doc.
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10-26-2004, 06:00
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Good story, but bogus.
Check Snopes about it.
Sorry.
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10-26-2004, 15:24
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Still a valid point, TR.
F'ing lawyers . . . 
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10-26-2004, 16:23
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Thanks TR,
I did the search as suggested and snopes said it was bogus. My apologies to the board and to Senator Edwards.
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10-26-2004, 16:36
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Thanks TR,
I did the search as suggested and snopes said it was bogus. My apologies to the board and to Senator Edwards.
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Doc:
Not necessary.
He has done far worse.
I found his "channeling" for the disabled children particularly loathsome.
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