Health department officials expect the H1N1 virus to continue showing up through 2010.According to the Centers for Disease Control, some 22 million people have already contracted H1N1. Of course, exact numbers are difficult to come by since most people who get sick don't see a doctor and many ...
Approximately 30,000 residents have been vaccinated in Lee County against the H1N1 virus and some 6,000 children under the age of 10 need to come back for their second dose of the vaccine.For this reason, the Lee County Health Department will host additional H1N1 vaccination clinics for those ...
After weeks of eagerly awaiting the vaccine for the H1N1 virus, the Lee County Health Department and partnering governmental agencies unrolled their plans to begin doling out the shot starting this morning.Both the health department and local high schools are offering the vaccines until Nov. ...
Vaccines for the H1N1 virus to be given out at local high schools will be delayed an additional three days, district spokesperson Joe Donzelli said Wednesday.The Lee County School District will host vaccine clinics this month, but a delay will not allow residents to get the shot until ...
A family spokesperson confirmed Friday that Michelle Olson, 30, was the Cape Coral woman who died Wednesday at Cape Coral Hospital after contracting the H1N1 virus.A spokesperson for her parents, Jerry and Diana Olson of Cape Coral, said she died from complications related to developing a ...
Cape Coral had its first fatality from the H1N1 virus Wednesday.The Lee County Health Department reported that a 30-year-old woman with no other medical conditions died after contracting the flu strain.Recent debate on H1N1 has focused on the deadliness of the strain and whether getting the ...
A 30-year-old otherwise healthy Cape Coral woman has died of swine flu.The woman had been hospitalized prior to her death and she did not have any medical conditions that put her at greater risk of complications from flu, health department officials said Wednesday.The unidentified woman is the ...
The Lee County Health Department plans to begin H1N1 vaccination clinics on Monday, Oct. 26, at area high schools. Sufficient quantities of H1N1 vaccine are not expected to arrive in time from the federal government to begin the clinics as previously reported. The Lee County Health Department ...
Even though H1N1 has garnered much of the public attention surrounding vaccinations this year, health experts are stressing that everyone should still get a shot of the seasonal flu vaccine.The seasonal influenza vaccine is currently available in clinics and drug stores across Lee County. Each ...
The Lee County Health Department along with the School District, Emergency Management and United Way have developed a plan which will provide county residents with a convenient and simple way to protect themselves and their families from H1N1 (swine flu). The health department anticipates ...