do you have swine flu?

[bigtopsfinn]

Markass, your numbers are bogus ... this, from the CBS website, (I Googled '1976 flu fatalities', and found this at the top of the list) :

CBS Quote: " The U.S. death toll surged fourfold from 16,263 in 1976-77 to 64,684 in 1998-99, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported " - Unquote ...
- :smokin:

Is that from the 1976 swine flu outbreak, or the total number of flu deaths for that year?

Wikipedia:

The 1976 swine flu outbreak (or the swine flu fiasco) was a strain of H1N1 influenza virus that appeared in 1976, circulated for one month, and apparently disappeared.[1] It prompted a mass immunization in the United States. The strain hospitalized 13 people and killed one, all from Fort Dix.[1]

The vaccination program was plagued by delays and public relations problems, but about 24% of the population had been vaccinated by the time the program was canceled. Only one person, the Fort Dix army recruit, died from the flu.[2]

About 500 cases of Guillain-Barré syndrome, resulting in death from severe pulmonary complications for 25 people, were probably caused by an immunopathological reaction to the 1976 vaccine.