Guest guest Posted July 5, 2009 Report Share Posted July 5, 2009 Mass vaccination drill puts health officials to practice (April 29, 2009)http://www.ktuu.com/Global/story.asp?S=10276511 & nav=menu510_2ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Alaska health officials and the Anchorage School District teamed up Wednesday to prepare for a worst case scenario by practicing a mass dispensing of vaccines.The exercise comes as the World Health Organization raised its pandemic alert, which means it believes a global outbreak of the swine flu is imminent.No cases of swine flu have been reported in Alaska. Still, health officials say it is possible swine flu will reach our state, and they want to be ready in case it does.Over the past two weeks, 11 schools have participated in an exercise to distribute the chicken pox vaccine to students. CLIP Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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