And a rep from the CDC or some other place I forget said that this is not the case. The real reason was that the profit margin is just to low. > 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.
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