The recent outbreak of the deadly swine flu spreads from Mexico to Europe to the United States and beyond, which leads to concern and health warnings. However, this isn’t a new flu to us… According to Wired, The Trentonian, and the New York Times this happened back in 1976 when Gerald Ford was president. Back then President Gerald Ford orders a nationwide vaccination program to prevent a swine flu epidemic.
At the time President Ford was acting on the advice of medical experts, who believed they were dealing with a virus potentially as deadly as the one that caused the 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic.
The deadly virus surfaced in February at Fort Dix, New Jersey, where 19-year-old Pvt. David Lewis told his drill instructor that he felt tired and weak, although not sick enough to skip a training hike. Lewis was dead within 24 hours.
The autopsy revealed that Lewis had been killed by “swine flu,” an influenza virus originating in pigs. By then several other soldiers had been hospitalized with symptoms. Government doctors became alarmed when they discovered that at least 500 soldiers on the base were infected without becoming ill.
According to this MSNBC article it states that “the World Health Organization (WHO) said total bans on travel to Mexico — such as one imposed by Argentina, which hasn’t had any confirmed cases — were questionable because the virus is already fairly widespread.” The virus seems to becoming more intense each day as the Pandemic Phase increases. As of today we are currently at a level 5 Pandemic Alert.
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