Warren D. Ward, 48, was in high school when the swine flu threat of 1976 swept the U.S. The Whittier man remembers the episode vividly because a relative died in the 1918 flu pandemic, and the ...

The last great swine flu epidemic "This virus will kill 1 million Americans," declared the U.S. in 1976. The panic then has a lot to teach us today.

The swine flu affair of 1976 holds many lessons for today, says Imperato, and there’s wisdom in the aphorism that those who ignore the lessons of history are doomed to repeat it.

For some reason this information did not mollify the doctors, and on Feb. 14, 1976, the CDC issued a notice to all U.S. hospitals to be on the lookout for any cases of swine flu.

The Time America Tried to Inoculate Everyone Against a Swine Flu Pandemic That Never Showed Some officials feared 1976 might become a “second 1918.” It didn’t happen.

Zona Cobb knows what its like to get a swine flu vaccine. The 70 year old got one when she was in her 30s back in 1976. "I got the swine flu vaccine because I had gotten the flu before and didn't ...

Unless you were a soldier at Fort Dix in 1976, you didn't have swine flu back then. Even if you were vaccinated against that era's swine flu, the shot won't help you now.

Of the 45 million people vaccinated against the 1976 swine flu, four hundred and fifty people developed the rare syndrome Guillain-Barré. From the CDC, In 1976 there was a small increased risk of GBS ...

I n February 1976, an outbreak of swine flu struck Fort Dix Army base in New Jersey, killing a 19-year-old private and infecting hundreds of soldiers. Concerned that the U.S. was on the verge of a ...

October 12, 1976: Nurse Jacqueline Spaky administers a swine-flu injection with an injector gun on the first day of the immunization program in New York City. Photo courtesy Bettman/Corbis 1976 ...

People who got immunized against the 1976 "swine flu" epidemic that never happened may have benefited from the shots after all they may have been protected from the 2009 H1N1 swine flu strain.

In 1976, an outbreak of swine flu at a military base in the United States led to fears of a pandemic, according to a bulletin from the World Health Organization by Dr. Harvey V. Fineberg, the ...