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Is the current Swine Flu scare the same strain as the 1976 Swine Flu?
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∙ 13y ago
No, it is slightly different. The vaccinations taken by some back in 1976 may provide some limited protection, but the virus is likely different enough that the prior vaccinations will not help. There have been other viruses in the past called "Swine Flu" that are also different. See the related questions below for more information.
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What are the release dates for Big John Little John - 1976 Big Scare Little Scare 1-5?
Big John Little John - 1976 Big Scare Little Scare 1-5 was released on: USA: 9 October 1976
When did the last strain of bird flu break out?
There was a lot of worry about swine flu in 1976. In fact, the government made a vaccine and had people get vaccinated. However, there were a lot of bad side effects from the vaccine. And fortunately the swine flu never reached epidemic proportions.
The year of the red dye scare?
the red dye scare was in the year of 1976 it was found to cause cancer
Are there different forms of Swine Flu?
There are different strains of viruses that have been called swine flu over the years. They are similar (all are type A influenza H1N1 subtypes), but different, with slightly different characteristics.There was the original swine flu that was the barnyard disease that pigs got and passed to each other (and rarely to a farm worker in daily close contact). It is still around today and mutating into various new forms among the herds of swine.There was the Spanish Flu that became a pandemic in 1918 just after WW1. It is now believed it was also a different strain of H1N1, and some speculate that it may have circulated around sporadically between then and relatively recent years in minor outbreaks from time to time.There was a strain in 1930 that was identified as one like the swine flu in pigs at the time, but more people were getting this strain than usually got the type in pigs. The laboratory identification of the strain of viruses was much less sophisticated then, so not as much is known about that particular strain. It is believed to have died out or mutated into something else no longer like the 1930 strain, or one still similar but unable to infect humans now due to a mutation.Then there was the 1976 Swine Flu that was a slightly different virus strain that surfaced and created concern at first when, unlike most influenza strains at the time, this one infected young healthy soldiers; and the ill-famed 1976 Swine Flu vaccination program was undertaken.Today we have the new form of the pandemic that is Type A H1N1/09 which spreads very easily from person to person but luckily is not producing mortality rates as high as seasonal flu does.See the related questions below for more information.
When did Nicholas Loukes die?
Nicholas Loukes died in 18 April 1976 of swine fever.
Were treatments available for the 1976 Swine Flu?
The swine flu in 1976 was contained to a very few (under five) people at a military base in New Jersey, all but one of those who were infected recovered without treatment different from that given at the time for seasonal flu. One person died.
Could the Swine Flu have been in existence one month ago without detection?
The swine flu has been in existence for many years. It generally only infects swine, but on occasion it crosses over and infects people as well. There was an outbreak in the United States in 1976. There was another in the Philippines in 2007.
In 1976 Pvt David Lewis at Fort Dix ended up becoming the only fatality of what putative epidemic?
Swine flu
How many presidents did the US have in 1976?
As of 1976, Gerald Ford was the current and 38th President.
Can you call Swine Flu just swine?
Some people do but it is incorrect. Swine simply means pig/hog. The flu, Swine Flu, is called that because it started as a virus that only infected pigs, so it was the flu that the swine got. Since viruses mutate easily, it changed into a virus that caused flu in people as well as pigs. The name Swine Flu stuck then and also now with the virus causing the pandemic which is actually a third strain of the swine flu virus that people pass to people.
How many people died of Swine Flu from 1970-2008?
All cases may not have been identified or tested to confirm the specific strain of influenza, but of the cases that are reported as due to "Swine Flu" in humans from 1970 through 2008, there have been only two deaths. The most famous early swine flu outbreak in humans was in 1976 at Fort Dix, New Jersey where four soldiers who were previously healthy contracted the virus and developed pneumonia diagnosed by X-ray with other symptoms of the flu. One died as a result. The virus was thought to have circulated approximately a month in the close quarters of the group in basic training but not outside the group, then it disappeared. In the fall of 1988, a previously healthy 32-year-old pregnant woman was hospitalized for pneumonia and died 8 days later. A swine H1N1 flu virus was detected. Four days before getting sick, the patient visited a county fair swine exhibition where there was widespread influenza-like illness among the swine. The next reported swine flu death began in 2009 with the first death in Mexico of the A-H1N1/09 strain of the virus. Maria Adela Gutierrez, a 39-year old woman in the southern tourist city of Oaxaca in Mexico died in March 2009.
How many people died of swine flu from 1970 2008?
All cases may not have been identified or tested to confirm the specific strain of influenza, but of the cases that are reported as due to "Swine Flu" in humans from 1970 through 2008, there have been only two deaths. The most famous early swine flu outbreak in humans was in 1976 at Fort Dix, New Jersey where four soldiers who were previously healthy contracted the virus and developed pneumonia diagnosed by X-ray with other symptoms of the flu. One died as a result. The virus was thought to have circulated approximately a month in the close quarters of the group in basic training but not outside the group, then it disappeared. In the fall of 1988, a previously healthy 32-year-old pregnant woman was hospitalized for pneumonia and died 8 days later. A swine H1N1 flu virus was detected. Four days before getting sick, the patient visited a county fair swine exhibition where there was widespread influenza-like illness among the swine. The next reported swine flu death began in 2009 with the first death in Mexico of the A-H1N1/09 strain of the virus. Maria Adela Gutierrez, a 39-year old woman in the southern tourist city of Oaxaca in Mexico died in March 2009.
