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Harvard did not escape last fall's swine-fluvaccine fervor, and the University Health Services (UHS) set up a vaccination program. Seventeen per cent of the eligible Harvard community members took the shots before the program was discontinued. The vaccine appeared to provoke a rare syndrome--producing temporary paralysis--in...
It begins with a runny nose, accompanied by a feeling of listlessness. Soon body temperature may soar as high as 40.5° C. (105° F.), and the patient develops the characteristic red rash of common measles, or rubeola.* Though this childhood disease seemed on the verge of extinction after...
GENEVA--The World He$1th Organization (WHO) yesterday asked for $4 million and donations of vaccine to help fight a resurgence of smallpox in East Africa, six months after the disease was thought to be extinct.
In December, after 40 million Americans had received the vaccine, the Government halted the shots when it was confirmed that the paralyzing Guillain-Barré syndrome was a possible, if rare, side effect. Since February, when the program was resumed, only 11,000 people have rolled up their sleeves. Today...
Besides paying $100 million for the vaccine, the Government assumed the burden of liability from the manufacturers; the 391 claims brought against the program to date total $117.5 million, including $89.2 million for 85 Guillain-Barré cases. Stuck, if not vaccinated, are the taxpayers.