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How can 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.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Stuck | 5/16/1977 | See Source »

The ILRAD team's next objective is to understand the mechanism that orders these changes in the parasite's coating. That knowledge could perhaps be used to fashion an effective vaccine or more potent drugs against sleeping sickness. If Hirumi or any other scientist were to realize that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: On the Track of a Shifty Bug | 4/25/1977 | See Source »

The 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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Off-Again, On-Again Flu Shots | 2/21/1977 | See Source »

The 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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Off-Again, On-Again Flu Shots | 2/21/1977 | See Source »

To answer the question, HEW's new Secretary, Joseph Califano, quickly assembled a panel of experts, chaired by Dr. John H. Knowles, president of the Rockefeller Foundation. During briefings by health officials, the panel was presented with a persuasive statistical argument: deaths from Guillain-Barré had occurred in about one...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Off-Again, On-Again Flu Shots | 2/21/1977 | See Source »

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