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Article: Swine flu vaccine arriving days early
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- October 7, 2009
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The state's first 36,800 doses of swine flu vaccine have begun
arriving at hospitals, clinics, and physicians' offices, a few days
earlier than expected, according to state public health officials.
The initial doses are nasal spray instead of shots, the more
common delivery route. For this reason, they will be used mostly to
inoculate health care workers and healthy young children, said
Jennifer Manley, spokeswoman for the Massachusetts Department of
Public Health.
Unlike the shot, the spray contains bits of live, weakened virus,
and cannot be used to immunize high-risk groups such as pregnant
women, patients whose disease-fighting systems are severely
compromised, or those with chronic ...