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...Though 26 million people in the U.S. may come down with Asian flu, and the disease can sweep coast to coast in a month's time, those who get it without immunization shots, Dr. Burney reemphasized, will have "a relatively mild illness with symptoms which are commonplace accompaniments of many everyday illnesses in our society." In short, Asian flu, though it beds most patients for four days, is not a deadly disease...
...state and territorial health officials assembled in Washington last week to map strategy in advance of this winter's expected Asian flu epidemic, Surgeon General LeRoy E. Burney had reassuring news on all fronts...
Indianapolis' Pitman-Moore Co., not yet ready with any vaccine, promised to send 500,000 shots, free, to doctors for themselves and their nurses or assistants - enough to take care of all the 180,000 U.S. physicians in private practice and their staffs. Though Surgeon General Leroy E. Burney of PHS was convinced that the mutant Asian strain of type A virus had by now been "seeded" in every state of the union (20,000 to 25,000 cases have so far been reported in the U.S.), there was no way of predicting when or where the expected epidemic...
With these facts in mind, PHS's Surgeon General Leroy E. Burney has asked six manufacturers* to churn out vaccine as fast as possible, and in response they are putting their virus laboratories on two or three shifts, seven days a week. But there is only so much vaccine available for seeding; it will grow only at its naturally appointed speed (in fertilized eggs). So, even with their crash program, the manufacturers can promise only 8,000,000 shots of vaccine by mid-September. After that, cooler weather is expected to send the flu rate soaring...
...first 4,000,000 doses (1 cc. each) are already earmarked for the armed forces and their dependents overseas. For the next 4,000,000, Surgeon General Burney suggested, doctors, nurses, hospital attendants and practical nurses (totaling about 3,000,000) should have top priority. Next, he thought, should come essential workers in the transportation, communications and utilities industries. Since these add up to another 9,000,000 or so, on this basis there would be no vaccine for the general public until late October. Still, the PHS (in spite of its experience with polio-vaccine shortages) is proposing...