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Iowa county cancels flu clinics
Posted: 10.07.2009 at 8:48 AM
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DES MOINES, IOWA (AP) -- The Polk County Health Department has announced it is canceling its community flu and pneumonia clinics because of a lack of vaccine.
Thirty-one community clinics had been scheduled for a two-week period beginning Wednesday through Oct. 25.
Polk County Health Department director Terri Henkels says the county has less than 1,000 doses of the flu shots left. She said the shots will be given on a walk-in basis at the department's Carpenter Avenue clinic.
Henkels says her department has more vaccine on order, but the shipment has been delayed until early or mid-November. She adds the department may not get its entire order.
Henkels says the clinics will be rescheduled once the vaccines are available.
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