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Pig farmers never liked it. They wanted to change the name to "New Jersey flu," but Jersey officials felt state had enough problems. Now UHS says that the swine flue vaccine--without an alias, but two months late --is on its way.
The clinic will offer a two-pronged (bivalent) vaccine to elderly and chronically ill patients later this month, a shot that should protect against both swine flu and the more prosaic Victoria-A. About two weeks later doctors at UHS will recommend that the rest of us line up for...
But Dutra estimated that his office could "get the vaccine into people's arms" three to five weeks after swine flu appeared, which Dutra said would be "plenty of time," because even if swine flu returns it will probably do so in small, sporadic outbreaks.
Most undergraduates who said they plan to ask for the vaccine said they felt the risk involved was minimal and saw no reason to gamble on contracting swine flu. The skeptics pointed to the unlikelihood of an epidemic and the unknown risks of the vaccine.
One Business School student, contacted accidentally, said he would take the vaccine "if they market it hard." A Harvard undergraduate said that he "knew very little about it and was willing to trust the federal government."