FL:
Swine flu vaccine due today: Pregnant women to be initial beneficiaries
By STACEY SINGER
Palm Beach Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
http://www.palmbeachpost.com/localnews/content/local_news/epaper/2009/10/13/a1b_firstshots_1013.html#
The first 900 vials of swine flu vaccine are expected to arrive in Palm Beach County ahead of schedule today, and health officials plan to direct them to pregnant women, one of the groups most vulnerable to severe complications from the 2009 H1N1 influenza virus.
NW Ind. work-release center locked down over flu
Associated Press
5:46 AM CDT, October 13, 2009
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-ap-in-flu-lockdown,0,7350493.story
CROWN POINT, Ind.
Officials in northwestern Indiana’s Lake County confined about 160 inmates at a work-release center after one inmate was hospitalized with severe flu symptoms.
Lake County Community Corrections director Kellie Bittorf says the illness wasn’t immediately confirmed as swine flu but that the staff was taking necessary precautions.
Convicted criminals serving their sentences in the Crown Point center have been barred from leaving for work or receiving visitors since Saturday.
The lock down does include a separate work-release program with about 150 inmates operated by the Lake County Sheriff’s Department in the same building.