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Fearing a repetition of the worldwide 1918-19 influenza pandemic that cost 548,000 lives in the U.S. alone, President Ford last March called for the inoculation of virtually all Americans against swine flu. His announcement had all the fervor of a declaration of "war, and Congress promptly authorized funds for the largest public health measure in U.S. history. But the flu campaign has run into one roadblock after another. Last week it appeared close to total collapse...
...CONTRAST TO Burgoyne is the muddle-brained Major Swindon, who lacks the elevated aristocratic perspective. Edelman has done well to cast William Young in the role: Young not only pronounces his lines with an ugly pigheadedness; he even looks like a swine...
...chemical cousin of the PCBs has also been causing problems these days. During the past two years, some 32,000 cows, more than 6,000 swine, 1,370 sheep and 1.5 million chickens, not to mention considerable quantities of eggs, cheese, butter and dried milk, have been destroyed in the state of Michigan after they were accidentally contaminated by a fire retardant containing polybrominated biphenyls, or PBBS. Furious farmers, many of them near bankruptcy as a result of the poisoning, have accused state officials not only of failing to protect producers and the public against PBBS, but also of attempting...
...President's medical advisers say the newly detected swine flu strain is similar to the lethal virus that caused some 20 million deaths worldwide during the 1918-19 global flu pandemic. The new strain showed up at Fort Dix, N.J., where a 19-year-old Army recruit died of flu-related pneumonia in February. Investigators also found direct evidence of swine flu in eleven other men and signs of exposure to the virus-determined by the presence in the blood of antibodies to the new strain-in 273 others. Yet a subsequent check of 50 men hospitalized...
Critics of the inoculation program add that, despite a careful search, no cases have been found beyond the base. Nonetheless, says Virologist Edwin D. Kilbourne of Manhattan's Mt. Sinai Medical School-and one of Ford's advisers-there is the distinct possibility that the swine virus has only gone into hibernation and may emerge again as next winter approaches...