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The new immunization program comes in response to a recent government announcement that one dose of the vaccine will probably not protect most 18- to 24-year-oldsagainst swine influenza. The U.S. Center for Disease Control issued a bulletin in November recommending that everyone in that age range receive a...
A lot of people simply do not believe that swine flu is real, while others think the vaccine is dangerous. So the U.S. Government campaign to inoculate 86 million Americans against the virus by Christmas was lagging badly-when along came Larry Hardison of Concordia, Mo., to give the program...
Moreover, the vaccine had to be specially freeze-dried to survive in the tropics without refrigeration. To administer it effectively-not always an easy task in areas where modern medicine is virtually unknown-WHO used a simple two-pronged needle developed by Wyeth Laboratories. It held just a single drop...
Although at least half a dozen people per day fainted after receiving the vaccine, they were probably responding to the situation and not the vaccine itself, Postel added.
Many more people received the vaccine on the second and third days of the immunization program, perhaps due to reports that the vaccine was relatively painless and simple, Postel said.