The Franklin News-Post
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Rocky Mount, Virginia 24151
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Wednesday, October 28, 2009
By JOEL TURNER - Staff Writer
Franklin County school and heath officials will hold a third informational meeting on the H1N1 (swine flu) and the vaccine Thursday night.
The meeting will be at Ferrum Elementary School at 7 p.m.
Any parent from any area of the county can attend the meeting.
Officials from the West Piedmont Health District and school officials will be at the meeting to explain and answer questions about the plan to to make the swine flu (H1N1) vaccine available to all students and school staff in mass inoculations when it becomes available.
Two informational meetings have already been held, one at Burnt Chimney Elementary and the other at
Franklin County High School.
At the earlier meeting at Burnt Chimney, Bonnie Feldt, epidemiologist with the West Piedmont Health District, said the H1N1 vaccine is safe, and it cannot give the flu to a child or adult.
Assistant Superintendent Sue Rogers said all parents will be alerted 24 hours ahead of time when the nurses will be at a school to administer the vaccine.
School officials will use the all-call phone system to alert parents to the day when students in a particular school will be vaccinated, Rogers said.
Because of the uncertainty about when the vaccine will arrive, school officials can't announce now the schedule of when the nurses will be at a particular school.
When the swine flu vaccine becomes available, school and health department nurses will go to every school in the county to administer it to students who have returned a permission form.
The vaccine will be given to elementary students first, and then middle and high school students. |
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