Anonymous ID: 2bd5aa April 14, 2020, 5 a.m. No.8788237   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun   >>8253

>>8788188

Vaccines did you say?

At least the Africans didn't get

Guillain-Barrรฉ syndrome

>>8779786 pb

>>8779827 pb

 

Perhaps the best example of governmental overreaction to influenza came in 1976, when an outbreak of swine flu struck Fort Dix Army base in New Jersey. After a 19-year-old private died, President Gerald Ford ordered a nationwide vaccination program that eventually reached 40 million people, or about 24 percent of the United States population at the time.

 

Without the vaccine, Health Secretary F. David Matthews solemnly predicted at the time: "We will see a return of the 1918 flu virus that is the most virulent form of the flu. In 1918 a half million Americans died. The projections are that this virus will kill one million Americans in 1976."

 

>sound familiar??

 

The vaccination program turned out to be a deadly mistake.

 

Reports soon surfaced about the vaccine causing a neuromuscular disorder called Guillain-Barrรฉ syndrome, and vaccinations were halted about two months after they began.

 

No swine flu epidemic ever erupted. The outbreak was limited to Fort Dix, and about 500 Americans likely died as a result of the vaccine.