Word: swine
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Officials at the University Health Services will advise all undergraduates to be vaccinated against swine flu in sharp contrast to Massachusetts policy and to a just-completed Medical School study that will recommend against mass immunization of young adults...
...There is no medical evidence to justify a mass program," Tony Dutra '74, head of the Massachusetts swine flu project, said yesterday...
...companies to handle the liability. Many Congressmen still believe that the President's program sets a dangerous precedent for the Federal Government and is even (some medical experts argue) totally unnecessary. "I hate this bill," said co-sponsor Senator Ted Kennedy last week, "but suppose there is a swine flu epidemic? They'll blame...
...program's eventual cost to the Government, through insurance claims, could be appalling (estimates range from $50 million to $25 billion), but whatever the figure, it can only be evaluated, as the President has pointed out, against the possible toll of a swine flu epidemic. Since health officials in other countries have shown no such concern as U.S. authorities, the President's effort is still very much a shot in the dark...
Then, as mysteriously as it had appeared, this strain of virus disappeared, or at least went underground. Apparently, perhaps with some minor mutation, it found its refuge among hogs -hence the appellation of "swine flu" given to the recent emergence of a similar flu strain at Fort...