I was 18 when the last swine flu panic went around in the US. This was back in 1976/1977 or somewhere around there I think. I was still in high school but since I was 18 I had the option on whether or not I wanted to get the shot, I opted out and didn't get it but there was a huge push to vaccinate everybody over the age of 18. If I'm not mistaken, some places were even saying it was mandatory. The weird part was that I don't think there was even a confirmed case of swine flu in the US. With the massive vaccination push, of course you had some people who turned out to be allergic to the vaccine and I also remember that to speed things up they had a new tool for giving the injections, instead of a needle it shot the vaccine in with a burst of high pressure air. Since they were in a rush to get this all done quickly they didn't train people very well on how to use these vaccination guns and I remember reading in the paper about some poor guy who got part of his arm blown off because the air pressure was turned up too high. I think after all was said and done, more people were killed or injured during the vaccination process then there were people who came down with the swine flu.