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Originally Posted by golfing eagles
Ummmm, not quite:
In the deadly Spanish influenza pandemic of 1918-19, investigators attempted to develop vaccines to prevent influenza, though they had not yet correctly identified the causative pathogen. A variety of killed whole cell bacterial vaccines were tested; these vaccines included Bacillus influenzae (now know as Haemophilus influenzae) and strains of pneumococcus, streptococcus, staphylococcus, and Moraxella catarrhalis bacteria. These vaccines would certainly not have prevented influenza infection--as we know now, the pandemic was caused by a new strain of the influenza A virus. Influenza viruses would not be isolated and identified until the 1930s, and the first commercial influenza vaccines were not licensed in the United States until the 1940s.
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SmallPox Vaccine was used as early as 1805 in Italy. While it had been used in the US for a hundred years, it was not licensed by the FDA til 1931. I believe the post said that there was a Spanish Flu vaccine being given in 1918 that killed many. I guess that It being an experimental vaccine we should not be shocked by the deaths. I didn't see anyone other than above mention it was licensed.