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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...
...list of diseases that have been troublesome to Americans lately, swine flu ranks somewhere below spring fever. Only three cases have been discovered since the flu-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...
...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...