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On the list of diseases that have been troublesome to Americans lately, swine flu ranks somewhere below spring fever. Only three cases have been discovered since the flu-related death last year of a soldier at Fort Dix, N.J., and none was fatal. In fact, the massive swine flu vaccine...
Soon, however, Morris again began to make his superiors uncomfortable. He asked whether slow-acting viruses in seemingly safe vaccines might cause serious illness decades after inoculation. He suggested that one now influenza vaccine might cause tumors, and charged that a major cell strain in which polio vaccine is grown...
But Morris did not get into serious trouble until he attacked the swine flu program, charging that it would probably not work and might be very dangerous. Morris's boss asked a panel of vaccine experts--many of whom Morris had frequently criticized--to evaluate Morris's performance as a...
The vaccine establishment treated other critics with similar, if more reserved arrogance. One state official, who asked not to be named, said he was given the impression that any open criticism of federal policy might result in less vaccine being shipped to his state. And when English and French authorities...
If such an outbreak occurred, the swine flu program--and its government and industry apologists--would have to shoulder much of the blame. A planned initiative to boost immunization levels was set aside this year, as funds, personnel and attention were diverted to the swine flu program. In addition, many...