以前有過豬流感爆發嗎?

【中文原文】

如果你曾經聽到過豬流感,很可能是你回憶起了或者讀到過1976年那次在新澤西Fort Dix的豬流感在入伍新兵裏的爆發.那一次持續了一個月然後消失了.來得突然,去得也很神祕. 當時有240例感染;死亡一例. 在Fort Dix傳播的是H1N1型豬流感毒株,與導致災難性瘟疫的1918-1919年流感相同,那場災難奪走了上千萬人的生命.(1976年)出於一種新H1N1病株大流行可能隨着冬季捲土重來的擔心, 導致一次匆忙上馬的項目,以發明一種豬流感疫苗並對所有美國人接種. 那次疫苗項目後來問題百出-- 其中包括公衆恐慌導致了過多的危險的過激反應 ,這還算小麻煩.在4000多萬美國人接種後,這個徒勞的努力被放棄了.目前證實尚無豬流感大流行事件.

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What Have There Been Previous Swine Flu Outbreaks?

　　　If swine flu sounds familiar to you, it's probably because you remember or have read about the 1976 swine flu outbreak at Fort Dix, N.J., among military recruits. It lasted about a month and then went away as mysteriously as it appeared. As many as 240 people were infected; one died.

　　　The swine flu that spread at Fort Dix was the H1N1 strain. That's the same flu strain that caused the disastrous flu pandemic of 1918-1919, resulting in tens of millions of deaths.

　　　Concern that a new H1N1 pandemic might return with winter led to a crash program to create a vaccine and vaccinate all Americans against swine flu. That vaccine program ran into all kinds of problems -- not the least of which was public perception that the vaccine caused excessive rates of dangerous reactions. After more than 40 million people were vaccinated, the effort was abandoned.

　　　As it turned out, there was no swine flu epidemic.