MACON, MO --  

The manufacturing of the H1N1 flu vaccine causes a delay in distributing the seasonal flu shot. Our Fact Finder Team stopped by the Macon County Health Department to check on their seasonal flu supply. The administrator says she ordered their usual amount of 800 doses, but they have only received half of that amount.

“We actually order in January and February and so it's not that we ordered at the last minute and we usually get delivery but they're telling us they really took staff off the flu manufacturing and spend more of it on the H1N1 to try and get that vaccine out very quickly,” said Judy Rushton, R.N.    

Rushton says they also ordered 100 doses of the flu mist.
    
The Macon County Health Department will be holding a drive-thru flu clinic on October 14 at the Macon County Fairgrounds. The clinic's being held from 8:30 to 4 p.m.

Macon County Health officials tell Fact Finder they placed an order for the H1N1 vaccine on Wednesday.

“The first shipment that we were allowed to order is a flu mist, it's a nasal spray for H1N1 to give you an example, it has to be ordered in increments of 100, we could only order 100 which means we may get 50 or we may get 30, we don't know that answer yet,” Rushton says.

Rushton tells Fact Finder the guidelines for the H1N1 flu vaccine are constantly changing. She guesses Macon County will receive its doses of the H1N1 vaccine in late October to early November.