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Published November 02, 2009 11:03 pm - COLUMBUS, Kan. — Health departments in Cherokee and Crawford counties are out of seasonal flu vaccine, while swine flu vaccine continues to trickle in slowly. A spokeswoman for the Kansas Department of Health and Environment said the situation is the same statewide. Betha Elliott, administrator for the Cherokee County Health Department, told the Cherokee County commissioners on Monday that the health department was out of seasonal flu vaccine. Kansas health departments out of seasonal flu vaccine By Roger McKinney rmckinney@joplinglobe.com COLUMBUS, Kan. — Health departments in Cherokee and Crawford counties are out of seasonal flu vaccine, while swine flu vaccine continues to trickle in slowly. A spokeswoman for the Kansas Department of Health and Environment said the situation is the same statewide. Betha Elliott, administrator for the Cherokee County Health Department, told the Cherokee County commissioners on Monday that the health department was out of seasonal flu vaccine. “We’ve done more seasonal flu vaccine in six weeks than in a usual flu season,” Elliott told reporters during a break in the meeting. She said the department has administered 1,600 flu shots in the past six weeks. She said she knows some residents who typically get their seasonal flu vaccines haven’t been able to do so this year because of increased demand for the vaccine. She said manufacturers produced the same amount of vaccine this year as they did last year, but the increased demand has caused the shortage. She said the shortage of seasonal flu vaccine has no relation to the production of H1N1 vaccine. Elliott said she didn’t know about prospects for getting more seasonal vaccine. “We’ve got messages out to suppliers,” she said. Janis Goedeke, health officer with the Crawford County Health Department, said her department also is out of seasonal flu vaccine. She said part of the reason for the shortage is that the vaccinations began earlier than they have in past years. “We are expecting more at the end of November,” Goedeke said. Asked if she was confident of that, Goedeke laughed. “I’m not confident of anything this year,” she said. 
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