Spatial Perspectives on Influenza Inoculation Acceptance and Policy
研究了1976年流感疫苗接种计划的空间特征,结合前后流感传播情况,分析疫苗接受度的地理模式,为未来类似大规模接种提供参考。
This paper examines spatial aspects of the inoculation program of 1976 within the context of the diffusion of other kinds of influenza immediately before and after the program. Events that contributed to federal involvement in a major effort to combat the possible spread of a serious infectious disease through the United States included elevated numbers of influenza deaths due to a prevailing viral strain during the winter of 1976, an outbreak of swine flu at Fort Dix, New Jersey, at about the same time, and the Legionnaires' Disease outbreak of July, 1976, in Phildelphia. Rare but serious side effects led to an early halt to the inoculation program during the winter of 1976-1977, but the resultant geographical patterns of vaccine acceptance provide useful information should the need arise for another similar effort.