Introduction - Uppsala Monitoring Centre

9 Kuwait, India, Thailand, Switzerland, Venezuela, Malaysia
8 Turkey, Cyprus, Israel, Kuwait, Hongkong
7 Bahrain, Egypt, Ethiopia, Finland, Mauritius, Yemen, Zimbabwe
6 Singapore, Chile, Cuba, Domenica, United Arab Emirates
5 Ghana, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Panama, Nepal, South Africa
4 Jordan, Nigeria, Sudan, EU,
3 Hungary, Tunisia, Congo, Iraq, Armenia, Syria, Worldwide
2 Romania, Rwanda, Peru, Morocco, Barbados, Columbia, Taiwan, Korea,
1 Zambia, Libya, Mexico, Lebanon, Surinam, Lithuania, Poland,
Paraguay, Guinea, Portugal, Honduras, Korea, Mozambique, Viet Nam
Nil
Bulgaria, Belize, Jamaica, Indonesia, Iran, Iceland, Chad, Brunei,
Tanzania, USSR, Costa Rica
One mustn’t jump to too many conclusions from such fragile data since a country,
which approved a toxic drug and then withdrew it counts higher than one that
refused to approve it because of its lack of safety. Again we do not know how many
of the 50 drugs were approved in each country, e.g. if Chad did not approve of any
of the drugs then it should be no surprise that they did not ban any of them. It is
surprising to find Canada so high on the list and Belgium, the Netherlands and
Switzerland so low. First country to withdraw: France and USA 10, Japan 8,
Canada 7, Germany 6, UK, Norway and Italy 3, Denmark and Turkey 2,
Australia, Austria, Brazil, Cuba, Domenica, Egypt, Spain, Finland, Hongkong,
Malaysia, Panama, Singapore, Sweden and Yemen 1. Those in italics have more
than 50% Roman Catholics. Those in bold have less than 50% Roman Catholics.
Griffin and Weber suggested that there was inverse relationship between the
percentage of Catholics in a country and the rate of spontaneous adverse reaction