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...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...
...related death last year of a soldier at Fort Dix, N.J., and none was fatal. In fact, the massive swine flu vaccine program proved to be more of a threat than the disease: it has been implicated in nearly 400 cases of a little-understood, usually temporary paralysis called Guillain-Barré syndrome. Yet last week, while acknowledging the risks, federal authorities ordered a partial resumption of the on-again, off-again swine flu program, which had been suspended since...
...that since most Americans were to be vaccinated against swine flu, those at highest risk might as well be immunized against A/Victoria at the same time. All this posed a dilemma for federal decision makers: Should they risk giving the double-mix vaccine again, despite the hazard of Guillain-Barré syndrome, to guard the most vulnerable against the resurgent A/Victoria strain...
...answer the question, HEW's new Secretary, Joseph Califano, quickly assembled a panel of experts, chaired by Dr. John H. Knowles, president of the Rockefeller Foundation. During briefings by health officials, the panel was presented with a persuasive statistical argument: deaths from Guillain-Barré had occurred in about one out of every million high-risk people vaccinated. By contrast, there were 1,260 deaths per million high-risk people who came down with A/Victoria flu last year. In other words, the chance that an uninoculated person would die from A/Victoria flu was many times greater than that an inoculated person...
...term effects; the government recommended the vaccine to pregnant women, for instance, after less than nine months of testing. Parke-Davis manufactured and had to discard over 1.5 million defective doses of vaccine; Americans were lucky that the program led to nothing more serious than several hundred cases of Guillain-Barre syndrome...