In 1976, 2 recruits at Fort Dix, New Jersey, had aninfluenzalike illness. Isolates of virus taken from themincluded A/New Jersey/76 (Hsw1n1), a strain similar to thevirus believed at the time to be the cause of the 1918 pan-demic, commonly known as swine flu. Serologic studies atFort Dix suggested that >200 soldiers had been infectedand that person-to-person transmission had occurred. Wereview the process by which these events led to the publichealth decision to mass-vaccinate the American publicagainst the virus and the subsequent events that led to theprogram's cancellation. Observations of policy and imple-mentation success and failures are presented that couldhelp guide decisions regarding avian influenza
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机译：1976年，新泽西州迪克斯堡的2名新兵患有流感样疾病。从它们中分离出的病毒包括A / New Jersey / 76（Hsw1n1），这是一种与当时被认为是1918年大流行病（通常称为猪流感）的原因的病毒相似的菌株。迪克斯堡（Fort Dix）的血清学研究表明，有200多名士兵被感染，并且发生了人与人之间的传播。我们回顾了这些事件导致导致公众健康的决定的过程，即决定是否向美国公众大规模接种该病毒，以及随后导致该计划被取消的事件。提出了对政策和实施成功与失败的观察，可以帮助指导有关禽流感的决策
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