Legal Opinion
Reyes v. Wyeth Laboratories
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided July 31, 1974No. 72-2251PublishedCited by 216 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WISDOM, Circuit Judge:
This products liability case raises significant questions concerning the scope of a drug manufacturer’s duty to warn ultimate consumers of dangers inherent in his product.
In May 1970, slightly more than two weeks after she had received a dose of Wyeth Laboratories’ oral polio vaccine, eight-month-old Anita Reyes was diagnosed as having paralytic poliomyelitis. Epifanio Reyes, Anita’s father, filed suit against Wyeth Laboratories, alleg- \ ing that the live polio virus in the vac\cine had caused Anita’s polio and that Wyeth was liable for her injuries because it had…
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