Una segnalazione dal Financial Times dal lister Badfrancy |
Financial Times - 2005/03/30 23:47 "Se una di queste cause venisse vinta, i possibili danni sarebbero inconcepibili. Almeno 1.5 milioni di americani sono stati diagnosticati con delle forme di autismo, ed una stima conservativa indica circa 2 milioni di dollari a persona come costo totale dell'assistenza, educazione e cure (da nascita a morte). Se l'industria o il governo dovessero far fronte a tali richieste di risarcimento, qualora fosse trovato un legame tra autismo e timerosale, la potenziale esposizione finanziaria renderebbe la vicenda giudiziaria sull'amianto una causa da corte secondaria." 1.5 milioni di rimborsi per 2 milioni di dollari ciascuna fa 3 trilioni di dollari... 3 TRILIONI! E voi vi aspettate che lo possano ammettere? On Wall Street: A Time Bomb Ticks Under Big Pharma By Stephen Schurr for The Financial Times. "It isn't a stretch to say Big Pharma's fortunes It is hard to find a sector that suffered more in 2004 than Big The debate centers on whether the use of the toxin mercury as a preservative in vaccines for infants has played a role in the surge in autism cases. No answer proving or disproving a link has emerged, but in Evidence of Harm: Mercury in Vaccines and the Autism Epidemic, author David Kirby sympathizes with the drug industry's opponents: the parents of children with autism who cannot otherwise account for it. Wall Street, the broader American public and the global community is largely unaware of the controversy. It isn't a stretch to say Big Pharma's fortunes are tethered in part to the Amazon.com sales rank of Evidence of Harm. Over the past two decades, cases of autism have risen sharply in the US. In 1987, roughly one in 10,000 American children were diagnosed with autism or a related disorder. Today the rate is 1 in 166. The epidemic has coincided with a surge in new vaccinations for infants between 1988 and 1991. Many of these vaccines contained a preservative called thimerosal, which is 49.6 per cent mercury based on weight. The book plays like a detective story. It begins with a crime of The parents are troubled by the US health agencies who, in their opinion, seemed more interested in protecting the US accination program and downplaying the evidence of a likely link than acknowledging the crisis. The parents are aghast when an unknown person slipped an eleventh-hour rider in the anti-terrorism Homeland Security Act aimed at inoculating Eli Lilly, which invented thimerosal in the 1920s, and vaccine makers such as Merck and GlaxoSmithKline, from hundreds of mercury-related lawsuits. While US health officials in 1999 called for a voluntary removal of vaccines containing thimerosal, they remain in use in the US and around the globe. Attorneys have found loopholes that have allowed them to press ahead with lawsuits alleging fraud and malfeasance by the industry for using toxic mercury in infant vaccines. If any one of these suits is successful, the possible damages beggar comprehension. As many as 1.5m Americans have been diagnosed with some form of autism, and a conservative estimate puts the cost for lifetime treatment, education and care at $2m per person. Whether the industry or the government ends up footing the bill if a link is found, the potential liability makes asbestos litigation look like belonging to a small claims court. |
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