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Swine flu La. deaths reach 14
First vaccine shipment set for children
* By SANDY DAVIS
* Advocate staff writer
* Published: Oct 6, 2009 - Page: 1A
Swine flu has claimed three more lives in Louisiana ? bringing the death toll to 14 ? state health officials said Monday as they also announced swine flu vaccine will be arriving in the state this week.
The three victims who died in the past week are a woman from the New Orleans area, a man from the state Department of Health and Hospital?s Region 3 and a woman from DHH?s Region 4.
The parishes in Region 3 are St. James, St. John, St. Charles, Lafourche, Terrebonne, Assumption and St. Mary.
The parishes in Region 4 are Evangeline, St. Landry, Acadia, Lafayette, St. Martin, Vermilion and Iberia.
Swine flu vaccine should begin arriving Wednesday and state health officials are recommending all of the first shipment of vaccine be given to children 2 years old to 10 years old, DHH spokesman Rene Milligan said
The vaccine was expected to arrive in late October, but the state was notified last week that the federal government decided to release the vaccine it had and accelerate its shipping schedule, Milligan said.
DHH officials were told 26,000 doses had been allotted to Louisiana in the first shipment.
?We signed up for every one of them,? Milligan said.
The vaccine will be shipped directly to the 50 or 60 pediatric-care providers who registered with DHH from across the state, he said.
Children from 6 months old to 10 years old comprise the only group that needs two doses of vaccine before they are considered protected.
The state will not give any of the first shipment of vaccine to children who are 6 months to 2 years old; the vaccine will only
go to children ages 2 to 10.
That?s because the vaccine is a ?live attenuated nasal spray? or a live virus vaccine, Milligan said.
Swine flu La. deaths reach 14
First vaccine shipment set for children
* By SANDY DAVIS
* Advocate staff writer
* Published: Oct 6, 2009 - Page: 1A
Swine flu has claimed three more lives in Louisiana ? bringing the death toll to 14 ? state health officials said Monday as they also announced swine flu vaccine will be arriving in the state this week.
The three victims who died in the past week are a woman from the New Orleans area, a man from the state Department of Health and Hospital?s Region 3 and a woman from DHH?s Region 4.
The parishes in Region 3 are St. James, St. John, St. Charles, Lafourche, Terrebonne, Assumption and St. Mary.
The parishes in Region 4 are Evangeline, St. Landry, Acadia, Lafayette, St. Martin, Vermilion and Iberia.
Swine flu vaccine should begin arriving Wednesday and state health officials are recommending all of the first shipment of vaccine be given to children 2 years old to 10 years old, DHH spokesman Rene Milligan said
The vaccine was expected to arrive in late October, but the state was notified last week that the federal government decided to release the vaccine it had and accelerate its shipping schedule, Milligan said.
DHH officials were told 26,000 doses had been allotted to Louisiana in the first shipment.
?We signed up for every one of them,? Milligan said.
The vaccine will be shipped directly to the 50 or 60 pediatric-care providers who registered with DHH from across the state, he said.
Children from 6 months old to 10 years old comprise the only group that needs two doses of vaccine before they are considered protected.
The state will not give any of the first shipment of vaccine to children who are 6 months to 2 years old; the vaccine will only
go to children ages 2 to 10.
That?s because the vaccine is a ?live attenuated nasal spray? or a live virus vaccine, Milligan said.