1976 photograph. A health professional drawing blood from an elderly man for testing during the swine flu vaccination camp
This 1976 photograph showed a health professional as he was drawing blood from an elderly man for testing during the nationwide swine flu vaccination campaign. This rare influenza strain, “A/New Jersey/76 (Hsw1N1) influenza virus” (swine flu), was reported among soldiers at Fort Dix, New Jersey, where one patient died. A very similar strain killed 500,000 people in the United States, and more than 20 million worldwide, during the pandemic of 1918-1919. In response to the 1976 outbreak, in order to prevent another epidemic, 50 million Americans were vaccinated during a 10 week period, setting an immunization world record.
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