New evidence shows immunization against "swine flu" in 1976 might provide individuals with some protection against the 2009 pandemic H1N1 influenza virus, according to new research from St. Jude ...

Warren D. Ward, 48, was in high school when the swine flu threat of 1976 swept the U.S. The Whittier man remembers the episode vividly because a relative died in the 1918 flu pandemic, and the ...

Initially, this virus appeared to be closely genetically related to the 1918 flu pandemic that killed over a 100 million people globally, ... Of the 45 million people vaccinated against the 1976 swine ...

With a pandemic looming, the US president announced a warp-speed effort to vaccinate every man, ... The swine flu affair of 1976 holds many lessons for today, says Imperato, ...

The Time America Tried to Inoculate Everyone Against a Swine Flu Pandemic That Never Showed Some officials feared 1976 might become a “second 1918.” It didn’t happen.

It was 1976. The threat was swine flu. “No one knows exactly how serious this threat could be,” President Ford said then, adding, “Nevertheless, we cannot afford to take a chance with the ...

Going into the 1976-77 winter season, the world waited – and prepared – for an H1N1 swine influenza pandemic that never came. But that wasn’t the end of the story. As an experienced infectious disease ...

Fears of a new H1N1 swine flu pandemic in 1976 in the United States had prompted a worldwide surge in research on H1N1 viruses and vaccines. An accidental release of one of these stored viruses was ...

When the 2009 swine flu pandemic hit, influenza surveillance in pigs was limited, said Dr. Bowman, who was then a practicing veterinarian. But the outbreak was eye-opening, ...

New evidence shows immunization against "swine flu" in 1976 might provide individuals with some protection against the 2009 pandemic H1N1 influenza virus, according to new research from St. Jude ...

New evidence shows immunization against "swine flu" in 1976 might provide individuals with some protection against the 2009 pandemic H1N1 influenza virus, according to new research from St. Jude ...