Nineteen-year-old U.S. Army Pvt. David Lewis set out from Fort Dix on a 50-mile hike with his unit on Feb. 5, 1976. On that bitter cold day, he collapsed and died. Autopsy specimens unexpectedly ...

Thirty-three years ago, U.S. health officials launched a massive effort to fend off a swine flu outbreak by encouraging -- and some would say scaring – every person into getting a vaccine. But there ...

Via the Very Short List, two public service ads from the last time the United States geared up to battle a feared swine flu epidemic: The virus never became a killer, and vaccinations were halted two ...

In 1976, 45 million people received shots against the disease.?However, it was the vaccination that ended up doing more damage. Twelve people died and another 400 people were paralyzed after ...

Nineteen-year-old U.S. Army Pvt. David Lewis set out from Fort Dix on a 50-mile hike with his unit on Feb. 5, 1976. On that bitter cold day, he collapsed and died. Autopsy specimens unexpectedly ...

As more and more people receive the H1N1 shot, an earlier vaccine is casting a mysterious shadow over the attempt to immunize 200 million people in the next few months. A vaccine made in 1976 in ...

As U.S. health officials consider rolling out a plan to inoculate the nation against swine flu in the next several months, they are haunted by the events that unfolded the last time the government ...

Q:I was in the military in 1976 when we were required to get a swine-flu vaccine. But now I hear that there is a new swine-flu vaccine. If I was vaccinated back then, am I protected from the current ...

A: Probably the most well known is an outbreak of swine flu among soldiers in Fort Dix, N.J. in 1976, according to the Center for Disease Control Web site. The virus caused disease with X-ray evidence ...