Wellsville ready in event of flu pandemic with $3.3K plan
<!--subtitle--><!--byline-->The Salt Lake Tribune
<!--date-->Article Last Updated: 03/12/2008 01:58:46 AM MDT
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<script language="JavaScript"> if(requestedWidth > 0){ document.getElementById('articleViewerGroup').styl e.width = requestedWidth + "px"; document.getElementById('articleViewerGroup').styl e.margin = "0px 0px 10px 10px"; } </script>WELLSVILLE - This northern Utah city is taking steps to fight a flu pandemic.
Just in case. The Wellsville City Council voted to buy 12-week courses of the antiviral medication oseltamivir - also known as Tamiflu - for 20 key employees.
If a pandemic strikes, Wellsville's mayor, city manager, one office secretary and two public-works employees will receive the medication, with the remaining 15 courses going to firefighters and other first responders.
Cost to the city: $3,300.
"There's no community that struggles more to pay their bills than Wellsville," City Manager Don Hartle said, "but we're doing this for the community." Wellsville, population 2,700, is just south of Logan. - Arrin Newton Brunson
<!--subtitle--><!--byline-->The Salt Lake Tribune
<!--date-->Article Last Updated: 03/12/2008 01:58:46 AM MDT
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<script language="JavaScript"> if(requestedWidth > 0){ document.getElementById('articleViewerGroup').styl e.width = requestedWidth + "px"; document.getElementById('articleViewerGroup').styl e.margin = "0px 0px 10px 10px"; } </script>WELLSVILLE - This northern Utah city is taking steps to fight a flu pandemic.
Just in case. The Wellsville City Council voted to buy 12-week courses of the antiviral medication oseltamivir - also known as Tamiflu - for 20 key employees.
If a pandemic strikes, Wellsville's mayor, city manager, one office secretary and two public-works employees will receive the medication, with the remaining 15 courses going to firefighters and other first responders.
Cost to the city: $3,300.
"There's no community that struggles more to pay their bills than Wellsville," City Manager Don Hartle said, "but we're doing this for the community." Wellsville, population 2,700, is just south of Logan. - Arrin Newton Brunson
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