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Officials: H1N1 virus not going away

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 ...

H1N1 Clinics extended two more weeks

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 ...

County to start offering vaccination for H1N1

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 ...

Illness led to pneumonia

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 ...

Health officials: Cape woman dies from H1N1

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 ...