Swine Flu US update

New York Ends Flu Shot Mandate for Health Care Workers. New York state made waves earlier this year when the health commissioner said all health-care workers had to get vaccinated. Now New York public health workers will no longer be required to be vaccinated against both the seasonal and H1N1 flu virus,

AS VACCINATION efforts go, the one underway for the H1N1 virus (aka swine flu) has not so far gone smoothly.
dupage County residents are clamoring for a limited number of free H1N1 flu vaccines offered by the Health Department,

Kansas health officials say a 62-year-old man is the ninth person in the state to die after contracting swine flu. H1N1 flu cases are surging all across California with hospitals seeing an increase and amid a reported vaccine shortage.

Only about a quarter, or nearly 450 of the 1700 Garden State health care providers that ordered vaccines have received them apparently.

The federal government promised 120 million doses of H1N1 vaccine would be available by now, but just 13 million have come through.

The Chicago Department of Public Health will begin offering free H1N1 flu vaccinations at six City Colleges of Chicago locations to those most at risk. Limited amounts of the H1N1 swine flu vaccine have arrived in metro Detroit, with health department clinics to administer it starting Saturday. Belated vaccinations could help combat a possible second wave of H1N1, federal health officials hace said.

At the same time nearly four in 10 parents do not plan to have their children get the swine flu vaccine this year, with doubts about its safety overwhelmingly cited despite the fact that more than half of recent hospitalizations for H1N1 influenza involved people younger than 25, and almost a quarter of fatalities were in that age group,