Word: swine
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...SOON to forget the swine flu program, or to pass it off as just one more Jerry Ford WIN campaign. It is too soon because the program is not quite dead; government officials now talk about a revival. It is too soon because in the program's failure lie disturbing consequences and important lessons. And it is too soon because so few members of the medical establishment seem to have learned those lessons...
Michigan residents were increasingly alarmed over the past three years as officials quarantined more than 500 farms and ordered the destruction of thousands of cows, swine, sheep and chickens (TIME, May 10). These animals -and such farm products as cheese and eggs-had been contaminated by a fire retardant containing polybrominated biphenyls, or PBBs, that had accidentally been mixed with feed. But after examining farm families exposed to PBBs, the Michigan Department of Health announced that it had found no evidence that the chemicals had caused ill effects in humans. That reassuring conclusion was apparently premature. A medical study released...
Three Med School professors have charged that current criticisms of the swine flu vaccination program are unfounded and said they would have begun the shots even had they known about the paralysis that has killed several recipients of the vaccine...
...There's nothing you can do that does not involve risk. Aspirin involves a higher risk than a swine flu shot," he said...
About six people have died and about 250 people have become seriously ill after receiving a swine flu inoculation...