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Health Officials: Strategies for Doing Without H1N1 Flu Shots

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Friday, November 6, 2009   

FRANKFORT, Kenn. - The ongoing shortage of H1N1 flu vaccine means low-priority individuals in Kentucky who want the shots may have to wait until year's end or longer, while relying on advice from health officials for avoiding the disease. The virus has been implicated in 18 deaths in Kentucky so sar, with four this week alone. Vaccine supplies are limited and state health officials say what vaccine they do have is going to the most-vulnerable first. That means, for those who are not young, pregnant, a caregiver, or have a chronic illness, it might be some time before they can be immunized.

Epidemiologist Dr. Rebecca Sunenshine says those in the lowest-priority groups will have to fend for themselves for a while longer.

"The best thing that people can do to prevent themselves from getting the illness is to avoid touching their faces with their hands, to cover their cough, and to try their best to stay away from sick people."

Sunenshine says, for natural reasons, older folks are low-priority for H1N1 shots.

"Individuals who are older have probably been exposed to a strain of influenza that gives them some immunity to this new H1N1 strain."

Unless you have a profoundly suppressed immune system, there's no need to stay home from work or avoid crowds, she adds. However, anyone who begins to feel sick is advised to stay home, drink plenty of fluids and take fever-reducing medications. Sunenshine says most healthy people will handle the disease just fine, but for more-severe symptoms like breathing difficulties or chest pains, you should seek medical help immediately.




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