[lit-ideas] Re: flu vaccine
- From: "Andreas Ramos" <andreas@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 13:41:56 -0700
> 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 outweighed the profit margin.
The liability outweighed the profit margin?
Pharmaceutical companies rake in tens of billions of dollars in profits. Their
profit
margins are outrageous. They spend money basically only on marketing.
The story is bogus.
They stopped making vaccines only because it wasn't a high profit item. Screw
the public.
Who cares if a few million loser citizens die?
yrs,
andreas
www.andreas.com
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