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Getting Your Flu Shot Could Help Protect Everyone, Officials Say
Posted: October 20, 2012
Stacey Morris, a marketing analyst at Rockingham Memorial Hospital, receives a flu shot from registered nurse Kim Stanchfield Friday afternoon at RMH. (Photos by Nikki Fox / DN-R)
Officials say there’s plenty of flu vaccine still available. There are 135 million doses to be distributed, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says, compared to about 128 million Americans who were vaccinated last year.
HARRISONBURG — Health officials are warning people not to use last year’s mild flu season as an indicator of what’s to come.
“It’s hard to predict,” said Dr. Doug Larsen, director of the...
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