From 1976: At least 15 people had died of a flu outbreak in Spokane County, adding to fears that a “swine flu” epidemic had reached Spokane. “The grim statistics, which follow an influenza epidemic, ...

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 ...

Mention swine flu in a political context, and all I can think about is the troubles it presented the Gerald Ford Administration in 1976. Now swine flu has landed in the lap of President Obama. In a ...

From 1976: A national flu outbreak had reached Spokane, with about a dozen or more cases arriving at area hospitals. The number of reported weekly respiratory ailment cases had jumped from 1,706 at ...

As if Mexico didn’t have enough problems, it is now the epicenter of the swine flu epidemic. Confirmed cases of the influenza top 300, with 12 officially confirmed deaths. Experts, though, estimate ...