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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...
...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...
...mystery of the Philadelphia killer, the outbreak served as a jarring reminder that all the marvels of modern technology have not yet made the U.S. immune to a sudden pestilence. Indeed many medical experts warn that the U.S. is still largely unprepared for an onslaught of swine flu, which some fear could hit the U.S. this winter. The new flu, although probably not as dangerous as the World War I variety, could be at least as virulent as the Asian strains that have swept the country in recent years...
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...