Great information on the 1976 Swine Flu Vaccination Program

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information on the 1976 Swine Flu Vaccination Program

I am aware of two very useful sources of information on the 1976

swine flu vaccine fiasco. Both are available in full on-line.

The first is a short

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published in the Journal of the American Medical Association in 1996,

written by Maurice Hilleman, PhD. Hilleman was America's pre-eminent

vaccinologist until his death 5 years ago. He led vaccine research at

Merck for decades, and had a reputation for frankness.

In 1978 the National Research Council (NRC) of the National Academy

of Sciences produced a 150 page report on the program:

<http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=12660#toc>The Swine Flu

Affair: Decision-Making on a Slippery Disease.

The NRC interviewed virtually everyone involved. The report reads

like a thriller, as the vaccine program developed unstoppable

momentum despite liability hurdles, election considerations and the

total disappearance of the swine influenza epidemic months before

vaccinations commenced.

These papers are required reading if you want to understand the

policy undercurrents of the swine flu vaccine program today, and what

policymakers hope to avoid repeating.

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