Hillsborough County public elementary school students can get swine flu vaccinations at selected high schools beginning next week. ...more

October 28, 2009

Q. As a health care worker in a small office in Pasco County, where and when can our staff receive H1N1 vaccine? ...more

October 27, 2009

Hillsborough public elementary school students can get swine flu vaccinations at selected high schools beginning next week. ...more

October 27, 2009

As people are once again learning, producing vaccines against influenza viruses is not an easy thing. Back in 2004, many will recall, there was a shortage of vaccine for what we have come to call the "seasonal" flu. One of only two pharmaceutical companies still making vaccine at the time had to shut down its production facility in England because of contamination problems. ...more

October 27, 2009

A fraction signed up for it and even fewer made it through the process Monday as Hillsborough County schools extended its vaccination program to students at select high schools and middle schools. ...more

October 27, 2009

The Highlands County Health Department began offering free dental care to uninsured pregnant women last Wednesday and its offices are already booked for the next two weeks. ...more

October 26, 2009

Saying it is experiencing the same problems obtaining swine flu vaccine as public health agencies around the nation, the Pinellas County Health Department has called a temporary halt to its "general immunization clinics." ...more

October 24, 2009

The Highlands County Health Department continues to wait for more shipments of the swine flu vaccines to open a vaccination clinic for residents. The first batches of the vaccines have been delivered to local pediatricians and obstetricians for children and pregnant women who are at higher risk for complications. ...more

October 22, 2009

The second swine flu-related death in Pasco County has been confirmed about a week after the first. County health officials said Friday a 45-year-old man tested positive for H1N1. He also had underlying health problems. No other information about the man was available. ...more

October 21, 2009

The Pasco County Health Department will offer free intranasal and injectable swine flu vaccinations to priority groups from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Thursday at 10841 Little Road in New Port Richey and at 13941 15th St. in Dade City. ...more

October 21, 2009