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I found these Swine Flu public service announcements from 1976. I thought it was interesting that when doctors feared that an outbreak of the virus in the US could become a pandemic, they attempted to heighten fears of the disease to increase the vaccinations.
The 1976 vaccination campaign is considered to have been an overreaction based on fears that the swine flu outbreak would pose the same risk as the Spanish flu pandemic that followed the First World War, which claimed the lives of up to 50 million people.
Many of the 40 millions Americans who signed up for vaccinations questioned the advice of the country’s health experts after the predicted pandemic never surfaced.
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