URL: https://www.indianz.com/News/archives/002980.asp

Friday, December 12, 2003

The Navajo Area of the Indian Health Service has run out of flu shots for the general public. Only high risk cases will receive the vaccine.

Area hospitals and clinics are seeing record numbers of flu cases, said Dr. Douglas Peter, chief medical officer for the area. He said the IHS has given 65,000 flu shots this year, a record number.

Get the Story:
Rez flu shot shortage; now for high risk only (The Gallup Independent 12/11)

Related Stories:
Get flu shot, Navajo Nation health officials urge (12/04)

All stories in the Indianz.Com Archive are available for publishing under a Creative Commons License: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)