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...their flu shots next fall, joked Democratic Senator Warren Magnuson of Washington, "they might have 'em vote at the same time." Magnuson's wisecrack, made during hearings on President Ford's emergency request for $135 million to inoculate all Americans against a possible outbreak of swine influenza (TIME, April 5), was tacit recognition of the emerging controversy surrounding the proposal. Despite final congressional approval and the signing of the measure into law last week, some legislators and doctors are wondering out loud whether the flu program is merely another symptom of election-year fever...
...there really a serious threat of a major outbreak of swine...
Wouldn't it be simpler and more edible to vaccinate all the hogs for swine influenza [April 5] instead of the entire American population...
...relatively mild flu epidemic. But tests showed that at least a dozen of the soldiers-including an 18-year-old who died of flu-related pneumonia-had been infected with a new and more worrisome viral strain. Medical experts are concerned that the virus, usually seen only in swine, may be similar to the lethal virus that probably caused some 20 million deaths-including 548,000 in the U.S.-during the great global flu "pandemic...
...program that would exceed even the record-breaking 100 million oral doses of polio vaccine given during a year and a half in the early '60s-and asked Congress to allocate $135 million in federal "seed" money for production of a new vaccine that is effective against the swine virus, if indeed it reappears in epidemic proportions. To supply enough shots for every American by early next winter-before the onset of the new flu season-drug companies will have to mobilize almost immediately, ordering, among other things, millions of fertilized eggs in which the vaccine will have...