In 1976 there was a swine flu pandemic. Remember? Me neither, but the PSA made a bunch of scary ads advising everyone to get vaccinated. When it was all over 200 people had gotten sick and one person had died from swine flu. The $135,000,000 vaccination effort came to a grinding halt when the ruling health authority at the time discovered the vaccine had a rare neurological side effect.
25 people died from that side effect.
There was a interesting presidential election in 1976… WHAT? I’m just say’n is all.