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...York law firm, began moving a platoon of 35 attorneys to an IBM office building in White Plains, N.Y., for courses in electronics, computer technology, accounting, company organization and business procedures. "In a case as big as this, there are hundreds, thousands of issues," says Cravath, Swaine Partner Thomas Barr. "So first you get an education...
...December, after 40 million Americans had received the vaccine, the Government halted the shots when it was confirmed that the paralyzing Guillain-Barré syndrome was a possible, if rare, side effect. Since February, when the program was resumed, only 11,000 people have rolled up their sleeves. Today, storerooms are stacked with 85 million doses of swine-flu vaccine, plus 27 million doses good for both that strain and the A/Victoria variety. Public health experts have urged that the vaccines be stored indefinitely: there may some day be a swine-flu outbreak...
Besides paying $100 million for the vaccine, the Government assumed the burden of liability from the manufacturers; the 391 claims brought against the program to date total $117.5 million, including $89.2 million for 85 Guillain-Barré cases. Stuck, if not vaccinated, are the taxpayers...
...strange ailment that triggered the new concern is a disorder of the nervous system called GuÍllaÍn-Barré syndrome. Named for the French doctors who described it in 1916. it begins with paralysis in the legs and may gradually spread upward to the hands and arms and the rest of the body. Most people eventually recover (the death rate is 5%), but if the breathing muscles are seriously impaired, a respirator may be needed during the critical period. No one knows what causes the paralyzing nerve inflammation, though the syndrome seems to strike more often after...
Officials of the U.S. Public Health Service's Center for Disease Control (CDC) were first alerted when a number of states reported a disturbing trend: GuÍllaÍn-Barré syndrome seemed to be occurring with greater frequency among people who had been inoculated than among those who had not. A quick survey confirmed their fears: only one out of every five Americans (nearly 40 million) had received their swine-flu shots. Yet, of the 107 suspected paralysis cases in 18 states, more than half-at least 58 people, including six who later died-had been inoculated...