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ROLL UP YOUR SLEEVE AMERICA, says the U.S. Public Health Service's bright new slogan. Yet as the nation's highly touted program against swine flu began last week, most Americans who wanted to take the slogan's advice stood only to get a cold shoulder. Despite...
Last week's snafus were hardly surprising. Since President Ford announced the mass immunization effort last March, it has been snarled in confusion and controversy, including a hassle over whether the Government would protect the four manufacturers of the vaccine against possible lawsuits resulting from its use. (It will...
Nonetheless, since the flu season -to say nothing of the election-is only weeks off, federal officials are taking no chances. As the vaccine is produced, it is being shipped to the states in quantities roughly proportional to their population. State health officials, in turn, are making shots available through...
But sound reasons exist for undergraduates to examine the evidence before rolling up their sleeves. the vaccine offers young adults about a 50 per cent chance of protection in return for a 2 per cent chance of incurring a low-grade fever, a greater risk of tenderness at the site...
Moreover, exposure to swine flu, if it hits, would likely produce only a moderate illness in a student-aged victim and, unlike the vaccine, would provide immunity for many winters to come.