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Kansas Officials Prepare For "Unusually Intense" Flu Season
Posted: 12:37 PM Aug 9, 2009
WIBW
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) _ Health officials across Kansas expect this fall's flu season to be unusually intense.
That's because they've been watching swine flu cases pop up for months.
They're anticipating thousands of shots by hospitals, clinics, doctors and pharmacists to help ward off the H1N1 virus, perhaps even a few million.
Health officials don't have many specifics yet on when new vaccines will arrive or how they'll be distributed around the state.
State Health Director Jason Eberhart-Phillips said state and local officials must anticipate immunizing the entire population.
If clinical trials for new vaccines prove unsuccessful, then health officials expect to fall back on the education tactics they used after the first swine flu cases were reported in late April.
http://www.wibw.com/localnews/headlines/52833912.html
Posted: 12:37 PM Aug 9, 2009
WIBW
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) _ Health officials across Kansas expect this fall's flu season to be unusually intense.
That's because they've been watching swine flu cases pop up for months.
They're anticipating thousands of shots by hospitals, clinics, doctors and pharmacists to help ward off the H1N1 virus, perhaps even a few million.
Health officials don't have many specifics yet on when new vaccines will arrive or how they'll be distributed around the state.
State Health Director Jason Eberhart-Phillips said state and local officials must anticipate immunizing the entire population.
If clinical trials for new vaccines prove unsuccessful, then health officials expect to fall back on the education tactics they used after the first swine flu cases were reported in late April.
http://www.wibw.com/localnews/headlines/52833912.html