Questions abound about how to best inoculate the world against swine flu as health officials plan for a campaign that could dwarf any previous flu vaccination effort. Among the issues to be resolved ...

Nineteen-year-old U.S. Army Pvt. David Lewis set out from Fort Dix on a 50-mile hike with his unit on Feb. 5, 1976. On that bitter cold day, he collapsed and died. Autopsy specimens unexpectedly ...

In 1976, 45 million people received shots against the disease.?However, it was the vaccination that ended up doing more damage. Twelve people died and another 400 people were paralyzed after ...

Nationwide panic. Subtle symptoms. Comparisons to the 1918 flu epidemic. Not much has changed in 32 years. That’s the last time swine flu made headlines in the United States. In November 1976, people ...

A: Probably the most well known is an outbreak of swine flu among soldiers in Fort Dix, N.J. in 1976, according to the Center for Disease Control Web site. The virus caused disease with X-ray evidence ...

Q:I was in the military in 1976 when we were required to get a swine-flu vaccine. But now I hear that there is a new swine-flu vaccine. If I was vaccinated back then, am I protected from the current ...

In January 1976, flu broke out among Army recruits training at Fort Dix, New Jersey. Most of the flu, tests revealed, was of a common strain, A-Victoria, but four cases (one of them fatal) proved to ...

In February 1976, 19-year-old U.S. Army Pvt. David Lewis died at Fort Dix, New Jersey, from a respiratory illness. Testing revealed infection with a novel influenza strain similar to the 1918 Spanish ...

A new study in the British medical journal, BMJ, suggests that big-name flu treatments oseltamivir (Tamiflu) and zanamivir (Relenza) have only a “small benefit” in kids under 12 — but can have serious ...

Marie-Paule Kieny, WHO's vaccine director, said several drug makers have started testing swine flu vaccine in humans, and that early safety results should be available next month, clearing the way for ...