Word: swine
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...cannot afford to take a chance with the health of this country." With those words. President Ford last March unveiled an ambitious effort to vaccinate Americans against a possible outbreak of swine flu this winter. Last week, after the latest in a series of setbacks, it was the health of the $135 million mass-inoculation program that seemed in jeopardy. Alarmed by a mysterious paralysis among some people who have received swine flu shots, federal officials indefinitely suspended the nationwide effort. Even if the shots are resumed-and people could be persuaded to take them-they may be too late...
...Sholem Postel, associate director of UHS, said yesterday that about 1800 young adults received swine flu vaccines in Memorial Hall last month...
...immunization program comes in response to a recent government announcement that one dose of the vaccine will probably not protect most 18- to 24-year-oldsagainst swine influenza. The U.S. Center for Disease Control issued a bulletin in November recommending that everyone in that age range receive a second dose...
...early fall, when problems of vaccine supply and distribution became paramount, officials did not stress the need for a second dose. The assistant director of the national swine flu program, Dr. H. Bruce Dull, said after an October speech at the School of Public Health that he thought one injection would be adequate...
...head of the Massachusetts swine flu program, Tony Dutra '74, said yesterday that the second dose was "pretty much essential" for 18-to 24-year-olds...