Word: swine
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...some chickens lay 157 million eggs and produce one fat turkey? Easy, when each egg is used to produce a dose of vaccine for the federal swine-flu immunization program...
...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...
...goal of the renewed campaign is not to immunize those uninoculated against swine flu. It is to protect elderly and chronically ill people against what may be a more immediate menace, the A/Victoria flu strain, which contributed to an estimated 20,000 deaths in the U.S. last year. As some experts had feared, the A/Victoria bug returned, striking 59 elderly people in a Miami nursing home in late January; five of them have died. But no vaccine produced solely to protect against A/Victoria was on hand; all that was available had been mixed with the swine flu vaccine...
...reasoning behind that move?which in hindsight seems questionable ?was 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...
...emphasized that there would be none of the hoopla that marked last fall's inoculation effort. Nor would anyone beyond the elderly and the chronically ill be encouraged to get the mixed shots against A/Victoria. Finally, in what seemed a move to disassociate the new Administration from the whole swine flu fiasco, Califano asked for the resignation of the respected veteran director of Atlanta's Center for Disease Control, Dr. David Sencer, who was a principal proponent and administrator of the swine flu program...