MHinFox
04-26-2009, 08:17 PM
Okay folks I am going to relay some information to you with the "facts" as I remember them. Sorry I am poor typer and pretty busy fellow so I am not going to do a search to recall information for you (busy or lazy-not sure which is winning since I have been up and working or driving about 19mhours today) . This occured I believe it was 1975 pre-intenet age. The us east coast had a flu scare going on. It was called the "swine flu " and was to be possilbly one of the worse flues ever. In those days flu shots were just being made available to the public in decent numbers. Now days when you get a flu shot it is usually a "fake " flu cell that triggers your body into believing it needs to build antibodies to fight the infection. They are petty safe even though folks fear them and due to the fact different folks have different reactions to shots ect. Sometimes it is worth considering whether you need it or not. In those days the shots actually contained a "dead cell" if you will to trigger the body into making the antibodies to fight the infection. It was a much chancier set up in those days but medical technology was progressing well for the time. Now on the east coast they were supe worried it was coming here from Europe at the time I believe. They forced all the sailors in florida to take the shot or you couldnt leave base (horrible condition for a sailor!) I know at Nas Cecil field, Nas Jax, and Mayport Naval station eveyone was under orders to take it period. In those days you did not questions orders espesaily one which would keep you on base...LOL they also talked many of the older folks into taking one at the time because they were at higher risk. Their was a large outbreak (remember the higher risk in a shot with real cell?) with the older folks and quite a few died . Believe Jack Anderson was one of the news paper writers at the time down in Jacksonville Fla and he really raked the gov over the coals . That year for that shot they had an incredibal outbreak among many of the sailors on the east coast from shots. the reason i remember this so well I was about to go over seas, so i was taking leave to go home before overseas...I was so mad to be sick a home then when i came back. I believe the jacksonville paper was named Jax star or sentinl...and I think jack Anderson wrote an article on it. Oh yea and the swine flu never had an outbreak that year except the one they caused. They got very quite about it afterwards...just thought you might want to know this if you would like to research should be enough info there to find something....the same OMG panic theme was used then as well . Because i have slept a fw times from there if you dont see anything i would check maybe 76.