NUMBER OF SWINE FLU CASES CLIMB —
Swine Flu cases pass 100….
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. authorities are pledging to eventually produce enough swine flu vaccine for everyone but the shots couldn’t begin until fall at the earliest. Worries about the spread of the virus mounted Thursday as the nation’s swine flu caseload passed 100, and nearly 300 schools closed in communities across the country.
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Ford-Iroquois Public Health Receives Anti-Viral Meds ….
Area health departments are among health departments receiving anti-viral medicine to treat swine flu. The medicine treats swine flu; it is not a vaccine to reduce the risk of getting flu, says Doug Corbett of the Ford-Iroquois Public Health Department. The medicine will be kept in storage until it is needed and until the health department receives guidelines for usage, Corbett added. The medicine is from the country’s Strategic National Stockpile. U.S. health and homeland security officials have released a quarter of the stockpile to be shipped to every state. On Thursday, Illinois National Guard members repackaged the supplies into smaller shipments and they were being distributed Thursday night by Illinois Department of Transportation trucks to state facilities across Illinois.
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Courtesy IQESDA.COM
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