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...first suspects to be screened-because potentially most worrisome on a national scale-was swine flu, a seemingly virulent form of influenza that first surfaced last winter at Fort Dix, N.J., where it infected about a dozen soldiers and killed one. Swine flu may also be related to the flu that killed over half a million Americans in 1918-19 (see box). Some felt that the rapid onset of the Legionnaires' disease was typical of flu. Others thought that the appearance of a condition similar to viral pneumonia, which can also be a result of influenza, was a convincing...
Seed Viruses. The doubts have been magnified by the fact that not a single new case of swine flu has been found since the strain (ominously similar to the 1918-19 virus) was identified in several hundred G.I.s at Fort Dix, N.J., earlier this year. Even Dr. Edwin D. Kilbourne of New York's Mount Sinai School of Medicine, a leading proponent of the Ford program, concedes that the Fort Dix outbreak could have been a "freak occurrence." Complicating matters further, the vaccine, grown in fertilized eggs from "seed" viruses developed in Kilbourne's lab, has been only...
Victor Garber, who plays Perdita's young suitor Florizel, is entirely new to me, and he's a real find. He is exceedingly attractive, the model of an earnest, ardent innocent. He speaks well (unlike Richard Backus last year), and exudes love. One could not ask for better. Richard Dix remains properly warm-hearted as the Old Shepherd, although he shaves off 13 years from the age Shakespeare puts into his mouth; and this year he has a new son in John Tillinger, who makes a droll dimwitted dupe...
...President's medical advisers say the newly detected swine flu strain is similar to the lethal virus that caused some 20 million deaths worldwide during the 1918-19 global flu pandemic. The new strain showed up at Fort Dix, N.J., where a 19-year-old Army recruit died of flu-related pneumonia in February. Investigators also found direct evidence of swine flu in eleven other men and signs of exposure to the virus-determined by the presence in the blood of antibodies to the new strain-in 273 others. Yet a subsequent check of 50 men hospitalized...
...mutate so frequently, vaccines produced to combat one strain may be less effective against a genetic variant that appears later in the same season. If appropriate inoculations could always be prepared in advance, doctors would have been able to prevent the outbreak of A/Victoria flu this winter among Fort Dix recruits-who were vaccinated against three other viral strains. Admits Virologist Gary Noble of the U.S. Public Health Service's Center for Disease Control: "Ford made the vaccine sound a little rosier than...