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Pennsylvania health officials expect more swine flu cases to hit the state
http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2009/11/state_health_officials_expect.html
H1N1/swine flu cases may have peaked this fall, but state health officials expect more waves of the virus to hit Pennsylvania.
Even though the number of cases continues to drop, Stephen Ostroff, Pennsylvania's acting physician general. said there are as many as twice the number of flu cases now as there were at the peak of any regular flu season in the past five years. "I don't want anybody to have the misimpression that as we go into December we're out of the woods, because we aren't," he said.
H1N1 vaccines are available only to those in high-risk groups. The state Department of Health is unsure when it will have enough doses to offer the vaccine to everyone, said Stacy Kriedeman, a spokeswoman for the department.
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http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2009/11/state_health_officials_expect.html
H1N1/swine flu cases may have peaked this fall, but state health officials expect more waves of the virus to hit Pennsylvania.
Even though the number of cases continues to drop, Stephen Ostroff, Pennsylvania's acting physician general. said there are as many as twice the number of flu cases now as there were at the peak of any regular flu season in the past five years. "I don't want anybody to have the misimpression that as we go into December we're out of the woods, because we aren't," he said.
H1N1 vaccines are available only to those in high-risk groups. The state Department of Health is unsure when it will have enough doses to offer the vaccine to everyone, said Stacy Kriedeman, a spokeswoman for the department.
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