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Swine Flu 1976Atlas
Health & Medicine · Vaccines & immunization
The Gerald R. Ford administration was centrally associated with the 1976 swine flu immunization program. Critical and dissenting narratives about the 1976 program circulated outside official channels, including polemical accounts that framed the campaign as a caper or overreach.
Open the caseTimeline
- 1976-09-15 · eventNational swine flu coordination meeting set in Ottawa
- 1977-03 · eventEnd of commonly cited swine flu chronology window
- 2006 · document_releaseCDC Emerging Infectious Diseases reflections on 1976 program
- 2009 · amplificationLater H1N1 cases prompt renewed comparison to 1976 episode