News Release                           For Immediate Release

                                                                                                                  November 6, 2007

Port Elgin Influenza Clinic

Six hundred fifty-seven people received influenza vaccinations at Saugeen District Secondary School on Monday, November 5, 2007. At last year’s clinic, 632 people were immunized.

Additional walk-in influenza vaccination clinics are scheduled this week for OSCVI on Tuesday, Nov. 6; Georgian Bay Secondary School, Meaford on Wednesday, Nov. 7; and at Peninsula Shores District School, Wiarton on Thursday, Nov. 8. All clinics are from 4-8 p.m. No appointments needed.

Additional walk-in clinics are scheduled across Grey and Bruce throughout November (see attachment). Publicly funded influenza shots are also available by appointment at Public Health in Owen Sound and at the Plex in Port Elgin, call 519-376-9420, or at Public Health in Walkerton, call 519-881-1920.
 

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Attachments:  Free Walk-In Community Flu Vaccine Clinic Schedule

For more information:

Karen Sweiger

Program Manager

Vaccine Preventable Diseases

Grey Bruce Health Unit

519-376-9420 or 1-800-263-3456 ext. 230