TY - JOUR AU - Sencer, David AU - Millar, J. Donald T1 - Reflections on the 1976 Swine Flu Vaccination Program T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2006 VL - 12 IS - 1 SP - 29 SN - 1080-6059 AB - In 1976, 2 recruits at Fort Dix, New Jersey, had an influenzalike illness. Isolates of virus taken from them included A/New Jersey/76 (Hsw1n1), a strain similar to the virus believed at the time to be the cause of the 1918 pandemic, commonly known as swine flu. Serologic studies at Fort Dix suggested that >200 soldiers had been infected and that person-to-person transmission had occurred. We review the process by which these events led to the public health decision to mass-vaccinate the American public against the virus and the subsequent events that led to the program's cancellation. Observations of policy and implementation success and failures are presented that could help guide decisions regarding avian influenza. KW - influenza KW - swine flu KW - Guillain Barré syndrome KW - vaccination KW - decision-making KW - history KW - United States DO - 10.3201/eid1201.051007 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/12/1/05-1007_article ER - End of Reference