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The Swine Flu Program. September 16, 1977. 10 pp.
Testimony before the House Committee on Interstate and Foreign
Commerce: Health and the Environment Subcommittee; by Gregory J.
Ahart, rirector, Human Resources Div.
Issue Area: Health Programs: Surveillance, Control and Screening
Activities to Reduce the Incidence of Disease (1211).
Contact: Human Resources Div.
Budget Function: Health: Prevention and Control of Health
Problems (553).
Organization Concerned: Center for Disease Control; Food and
rrug Administration; National Institutes of Health: National
Inst. of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
Congressional Pelevance: House Committee on Interstate and
Fcreign Commerce: Health and the Environment Subcommittee.
the Swine Flu Program was the Government's first
attempt at immunization oi the entire U.S. population and was
based primarily on scientific judgments that a pandemic could
occur at any tice. Vo swine flu outbreak occurred during the
1976-77 xiu season. If recent experience shows that considerable
money can be saved and if the Department of 4ealth, Education,
and Welfare (HEW) intends to continue rigorously testing and
approving e ery vaccine lot, then total Federal assumption of
the liability coverage for vaccine production should be
considered. Congress should establish a national liability
policy tefore another immunization program is needed. HEW should
continue its own potency tests on all lots of flu vaccine until
manufacturers' test results can be relied on and should test
vaccine interded for trial use as it would be tested for public
use. The duration of protection provided by the vaccine is
uncertain. In any future programs, State and local agencies will
need better guidance and assistance from HEW in managing
projects and will, in turn, have to make firm commitments to
BEW. Expenditures for the Swine Flu Program reported by the
Center for Disease Control were about $103 million. Total costs
have not yet teen accurately determined but m&y far exceed the
$135 million appropriated. (SW)](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.gao/gaobadxvr0001&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)