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  1. Feb 6, 2017 · “Some of the American public’s hesitance to embrace vaccines — the flu vaccine in particular — can be attributed to the long-lasting effects of a failed 1976 campaign to mass-vaccinate the...

    • Kat Eschner
  2. Sep 22, 2020 · The stories, it would turn out, were false and misleading. But it was just one of many problems that plagued the “swine flu affair of 1976”, when a US president decided to rush a vaccine to ...

  3. May 23, 1980 · THE GOVERNMENT has now made a settlement with June Roberts, the McLean woman who contracted Guillain-Barre syndrome in 1976 when swine flu vaccine was urged on the whole population to prevent a...

    • Warned of A Pandemic, Gerald Ford Took Swift Action
    • Accusations of Election Year Fear-Mongering
    • Public Confidence in The Vaccine Waned

    Even though no other swine flu cases had been detected outside Fort Dix, the CDC advocated a better-safe-than-sorry approach. “The administration can tolerate unnecessary health expenditures better than unnecessary deaths and illness,” Sencer wrote in a March 13 memo. When presented with a $135 million plan to prevent a pandemic that could cost bil...

    Under the National Swine Flu Immunization Program that received bipartisan approval from Congress, the federal government planned to buy 200 million doses of vaccines developed by drug companies and distribute them for free to state health agencies. It would have been the largest immunization campaign in American history, even more ambitious than p...

    As the U.S. celebrated its bicentennial summer, a respiratory disease killed 34 people tied to a Philadelphia hotel that had hosted an American Legion convention. Although the cause of what would be known as Legionnaires’ diseasewas a previously unknown bacterium in the hotel’s air-conditioning system, swine flu was the original suspect. With fears...

  4. Feb 9, 2021 · After a lab at the Center for Disease Control reported that the cause was an influenza of a strain related to swine flu, the federal government spent most of 1976 developing, and partially...

    • Rebecca Onion
  5. The National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act (NCVIA) of 1986 (42 U.S.C. §§ 300aa-1 to 300aa-34) was signed into law by United States President Ronald Reagan as part of a larger health bill on November 14, 1986.

  6. The National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP or NVICP) was established by the 1986 National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act (NCVIA), passed by the United States Congress in response to a threat to the vaccine supply due to a 1980s scare over the DPT vaccine.

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