I am very scared about the "bird flu". When the Swine flu hit the USA in 1976, how many people died and how many recieved innoculations?

McGruff

The U.S. swine flu scare of 1976 On February 5, 1976 an army recruit at Fort Dix said he felt tired and weak. He died the next day and four of his fellow soldiers were later hospitalized. Two weeks after his death, health officials announced that swine flu was the cause of death. Alarmed public health officials decided that action must be taken to head off a major pandemic and they urged that every person in the US be vaccinated for the disease. President Gerald Ford was confronted with a potential Swine flu pandemic. The vaccination program was plagued by delays and public relations problems but about 24% of the population was vaccinated by the time the program was cancelled. The vaccine was blamed for 25 deaths (more people died from the vaccine than died from the swine flu itself) and a small, but statistically significant, rise in the incidence of a rare illness called Guillain-Barré syndrome or GBS. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swine_flu Apr 03 06, 3:27 AM

mochyn

Well done McG, 50 Million vaccinated but only one death due to swine flu Apr 03 06, 8:01 AM

xfacilitatorx

I personally would not ever receive ANY Government/CDC vaccine.EVER. Apr 03 06, 2:22 PM

Baloo55th

This calls for some analysis beyond any I can do. The vaccine killed 25 people, but how many did it protect from actually getting the disease? How many would have died but for the vaccine? Is the disease always fatal? These points need to be considered before condemning the programme of vaccination, and before launching such a programme as well. Incidentally, with regard to innoculation, the first person in the UK to die of measles in 14 years just did so. A teenage Traveller (= Gypsy or Tinker) who hadn't been innoculated. The vast majority of UK kids are innoculated. Apr 03 06, 3:52 PM

Baloo55th

Bird Flu: At the moment, it is caught through contact with droppings from infected birds. This can be by inhaling dust from dried droppings. This in unlikely to happen unless you are in regular contact with such things. Those who have died so far have almost all been connected with poultry in some way. And poultry that have been in contact with wild birds like geese or ducks. Battery chickens are not in such contact, and there have been no cases that I know of attributed to eating meat or eggs, so your KFC is not going to be any more unhealthy than it was before. Garden birds and cage birds should be clear, too. If mutation occurs, human to human transfer could (COULD) happen. Before panicking, think. How many Thai or Turkish free range poultry breeders do you know? Also remember SARS? The virus that was going to sweep the world? Mind you, it is a bit ironic that battery fowl is safer than free range... Apr 04 06, 5:01 AM

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