Clermont Begins School Vaccination Clinics for H1N1 Virus

Batavia, Ohio.  The Clermont County General Health District begins holding vaccination clinics at county schools this week to administer the first of two H1N1 shots.  “We have 5,000 doses of the vaccine to administer at county schools this week,” said Clermont General Health District Commissioner Marty Lambert.  “Younger siblings of children attending the schools where the clinics are held can also obtain the vaccines.  Check with your school to determine the location and hours of the vaccination clinics.”  The shots are voluntary.

“Children 10 and under will receive two doses of the vaccine, about a month apart,” said Lambert.  “Older children and adults need only one dose.”  The 2009 H1N1 influenza is caused by a new strain of virus that is spread from person to person through coughing, sneezing, and sometimes through touching objects contaminated with the virus.

Student vaccination clinics will be held this week at Bethel Tate Middle School (for Bick, Ebon C. Hill, and Bethel Tate Middle schools), Clermont Northeastern High School (for CNE Elementary and St. Louis schools), Goshen Middle School (for Spaulding and Marr/Cook schools), Pattison Elementary (for Pattison and Seipelt schools), McCormick Elementary (for McCormick and Smith schools), Meadowview Elementary (for Meadowview and Mulberry schools), Batavia High School (for high school and Batavia Elementary), and Batavia Middle school.

One thousand doses of the H1N1 vaccine have been distributed to healthcare and high risk emergency personnel in the county.  Additional school clinics will be scheduled, as the vaccine becomes available.  The school vaccination clinics are not open to the general public.