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Skriven 2004-10-28 04:36:00 av John Hull (1:379/1.99)
   Kommentar till text 4145 av Steve Asher (3:800/432.0)
Ärende: Flu Shot Info
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28 Oct 04 12:15, Steve Asher wrote to Jeff Binkley:

 SA> Mulling over Jeff Binkley to All 26 Oct 2004

 SA> G'day Jeff...

 SA> Berley 'em up, reel 'em in, eh?

 JB>> Flu Shot Info

 JB>> Why the shortage?
 JB>> Almost half of the nation's flu vaccine will not be delivered this
 JB>> year. Chiron, a major manufacturer of flu vaccine, will not be
 JB>> distributing any influenza vaccine this flu season. Chiron was to
 JB>> make 46-48 million doses vaccine for the United States. Chiron is 
 JB>> a British company.

 SA> I guess Chiron is a British company, if Emeryville, California 
 SA> is part of Britain. 

 SA> AFAIK, California is part of the USA. :)

 SA> ( http://www.chiron.com/investors/factsheet/index.html )
 SA> Headquarters Emeryville, California

 SA> Rest of the "info" binned.

You should be more careful of what you round file, sport.  Chiron is a British
subsidiary of a US company.  The vaccine they made was rejected because the
British government inspectors found the place was contaminated.  British plant,
British workers, British rules and regs on cleanliness, etc.

But that begs the question of why there are no vaccine makers in the US, or
very few.  That is directly the responsibility of the Democrats under Bill
Clinton, the guy everybody loves so much.  Government price controls made it so
unprofitable for US based companies to produce vaccine that all but one or two
have gotten out of that business.  Another example of how government
interference in private enterprise creates more problems than it solves.

John 

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