Comments on: Flashback: Who Remembers The 1974 Swine Flu Scare?

By: jackie

jackie — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:58:32 +0000

The reason I came to this site is because some people are telling me I could’nt have received the swine flu vaccine in 1974. I was 17 then I, do have memory lapses from the 70s like: how ? where? when? who??!! If you got thru that decade you know what I’m talking about. BUT I do remember my parents taking me to dr. and I received what I have always believed to be SFV. Within 7-10 days I could not walk, legs and feet were paralyzed, and my mom had to feed me because my hands were paralyzed. I was diagnosed in the hosp. in 1974 in Canton Ohio as having GBS from the flu shot. So my question is this: did anyone else out there get the Swine Flu Vaccination in 1974??

By: deb

deb — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 20:03:29 +0000

I got the flu in 1974. I was a healthy 16 year old at the time. To this day, it is the sickest I have ever been in my life (and I’ve had thyroid cancer and been a pedestrian run over by 2 vehicles). I was in bed for 2 weeks. 104 fever lasted 10 days. Chills, headache, body aches, wretched chest pains from chronic, unproductive coughing. Apparently, I was never in danger of death but I would have sworn the reaper was coming for me. Take all precautions. You don’t want to feel that way.

By: Rosemary

Rosemary — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 03:13:21 +0000

I remember the swine flu scare. I took the shot. I told my boyfriend the other day and he argued with me that there was never before swine flu. He said it was the Hong Kong flu. I told him, “no I got the shot”. I was so curious because he made me start to doubt myself that I looked it up and here I am I was right. It was the swine flu. I did not get sick from the shot. But I did not get the flu either. My daughter was about four years old then. I guess my memory is not as bad as I thought. Yehhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By: TBL

TBL — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 04:50:56 +0000

The title of the blog post says 1974, but the content says 1976…?

By: pam

pam — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 17:47:27 +0000

Same thing happened to me. I worked on a military base and was told if we did not comply we would be fired. I had problems for 2 years.!! nuretlogical and lower back pain Im told now DO NOT! take the new vacinne if you had problems in 1976…
I wish someone would address what in the hell we are suppose to do!

By: jj122

jj122 — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 18:10:07 +0000

Does anyone remember the recommendation to drink Ouzo during this outbreak?? I say what the hell, it’s worth a try now too!!!

By: Egon

Egon — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 10:17:13 +0000

doug, shabda, Ross, rosamundi – nice try to get people scarry – what a bullshit !

By: shabda

shabda — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 02:19:49 +0000

oh i had it and thought i should die from it! i had two small children and couldn’t even move enough to care for them. if that is what the world is in store for from the current forcasts, God help us all…

By: Ross

Ross — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 15:41:57 +0000

Yes, I remember well the flu of 1974. It was the worst flu of my life. High fever, delerious for perhaps a week, room spinning around, barely able to stumble to the bathroom and back about twice a day (sleeping the rest of the time), and out of work for two weeks. When I finally went back to work the place was nearly deserted (perhaps 2/3 of my coworkers being still sick at home). I understand that flu shots have some small risk, but the risk from the flu itself seems to me to be worse.

By: rosamundi

rosamundi — Thu, 07 May 2009 20:24:34 +0000

I remember having the flu in Jan’74. I was in grade 10 and knocked out of school for 2 weeks. My mom had to take of work, which she never did, to take care of my brother and me. I remember having a high enough fever that I was delirous and aching all over. I was week for a long time. I then went back to school and caught it again; the second time was worse than the first. It ran through my whole family, cousins, aunts, etc. We had to hunker down I mainly remember the fever and pain.