SWINE FLU, ROUND 1

Posted By: Lawrence Wright

Posted On: November 5, 2009

Tagged As: H1N1 flu, swine flu, Centers for Disease Control

This isn’t the first time Americans have been urged to roll up their sleeves and take a shot of protection against swine flu. In 1976, at the urging of the director of the CDC, the federal government set out on a controversial course to vaccinate the entire US population against the H1N1 influenza virus. In 10 weeks 45 million doses of vaccine were administered. The program was suspended after a number of cases of Guillian-Barré syndrome were discovered in people who had received the vaccine.

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