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By Dave Larsen, Staff Writer Updated 2:23 PM Tuesday, October 27, 2009

CENTERVILLE — Alex Trame, 9, of Springboro, said Tuesday it was “awesome” to be one of the first students in the Dayton area to receive the H1N1 vaccine.

Trame, 9, was one of about 650 students who were vaccinated Tuesday, Oct. 27, at a clinic at Incarnation School in Centerville.

Trame, a fourth grader, received the FluMist nasal spray vaccine against H1N1, also known as swine flu.

“I hope I don’t get it,” she said.

Bill Wharton, spokesman for Public Health — Dayton & Montgomery County, said it was great to be underway with the student vaccinations.

“This is just the first step for trying to reach the 82,000 kids that we have in Montgomery County,” Wharton said.

Vaccinating all of those children depends on parents returning consent forms and the availability of the vaccine, Wharton said.

Public Health has 14,000 doses available this week for the school immunizations.

The Incarnation students were being “brave,” said Cheryl Reichel, the school’s principal.

“We really haven’t had any screamers. We have had a few tears,” Reichel said.

The vaccinations were administered in the parish center attached to the school. The students were brought in one class at a time, and the flu clinic was running about 20 minutes ahead of schedule, said Ann Woeste, the school’s nurse.

Seventeen parents volunteered along with nine nurses and one doctor, all of whom have children who attend Incarnation. The school has about 850 students.

Teachers were not immunized because they are not in a high risk group as designated by the Centers for Disease Control, Wharton said.

“Our focus is on getting as many of the kids immunized in Montgomery County as possible,” Wharton said.

H1N1 immunization clinics are scheduled for Wednesday at Driscoll Elementary School in Centerville, St. Albert the Great School and the Montgomery County Learning Center East in Kettering.

School clinics are scheduled for Thursday at Carroll High School in Dayton, and Ascencion School and the Montgomery County Learning Center West in Kettering.

A clinic is scheduled for Friday at St. Charles Borromeo School in Kettering.

These clinics are for the students in these schools only, and tentative based on vaccine availability, Wharton said.

Public Health will start vaccinating pregnant women and children ages 6 months through 4 years on Thursday from 3-7 p.m. at Hara Arena, 1001 Shiloh Springs Road in Trotwood. People in both groups are at high risk for complications from H1N1, according to the CDC.

Public Health has between 4,000-5,000 units of H1N1 vaccine available for the clinic at Hara Arena, Wharton said.

Initial public clinics will focus on targeted high risk groups, according to Wharton. “Then we’ll go from that to the general public as soon as we have more vaccine in hand,” he said.

Public Health expects to have enough H1N1 vaccine for everyone who wants to be vaccinated before the flu season is over. “It’s coming in much slower than what we’d anticipated,” Wharton said.

The Greene County Combined Health District has not started scheduling school H1N1 clinics, according to Sara T. Pappa, spokeswoman.

However, Greene County residents ages 6 months to 24 years can receive the H1N1 vaccine on Thursday at a clinic for people in CDC priority groups, Pappa said. The clinic will be held from 2-7 p.m. at the Fairgrounds, 120 Fairgrounds Road in Xenia.

“Starting next week we’re going to assess our vaccine supply and we are planning to start going into each school district as our supply allows us to,” Pappa said.

Pappa would not disclose the number of available doses of H1N1 vaccine in Greene County.

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tsk tsk - Check your facts. President's daughters received H1N1 vaccine last week through public health. Check it out. Australia already started administering vaccine and England started as well. What news sites do you recommend for international news?

Paul
3:40 PM, 10/28/2009

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Paul et al,

Did you read where other countries, like China, are resisting the vaccine? Perhaps reading something other than US news sources and DDN (are they a news source?) would enlighten you. Oh, and the leader's daughters received the regular flu vaccine. It IS about the numbers and preventative medicine and less about the hype and hysteria that many seem to be engaging in. I have noticed that conspiracy theorists are sounding more like the ones with discernment. Check patents.

tsk tsk Paul & Steve
10:18 PM, 10/27/2009

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Too bad the flu isn't selective and can't just take out all the conspiracy wackos who think the government created the flu virus! Have we gone insane? Apparently common sense isn't contagious!

Steve
9:59 PM, 10/27/2009

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Anyone who's concerned about the school vaccination process should call the H1N1 Hotline, 224-8796 from 8am–4pm, Mon–Fri. Perhaps they're vaccinating the smallest schools first to cover a majority of students at once, making the overall school immunity more effective. Or is it on a first come first served basis, in the order in which schools made their requests/filed the paperwork? NancyMary the PUBLIC health dept is here to serve students of ALL schools, as they are all members of the PUBLIC.

reader
9:25 PM, 10/27/2009

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And this is an issue ALL OVER THE WORLD. Not just here - if this was a US government conspiracy why would officials in China, Australia, Brazil, Argentina, South Africa, etc.etc. also be looking at ways to stop the flu and looking for a vaccine. This is a virus, a public health threat - why oh why is that oh so hard for people to comprehend?

Paul
8:08 PM, 10/27/2009

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