Canada H1N1 Flu Updates
October 31, 2009 by admin
Filed under Canadian News updates & articles
Latest information and updates for Canada:
-Provinces are reporting a shortage of vaccine inventory, may accept only high risk groups in order to ration the vaccines. These provinces include Newfoundland and Labrador, Saskatchewan, New Brunswick and Quebec (and Ontario). - Oct 31-09
-Toronto Officials are asking only high risk groups to come to vaccine clinics - Oct 30-09
High Risk/Priority groups are
- Pregnant women.
- Children from six months to five years of age.
- People who live with children under six months old.
- People under 65 with underlying medical conditions.
- Immuno-compromised people and those caring for them.
- People living in remote and isolated communities.
-As of Oct. 24, 92 deaths (In Canada) from swine flu have been reported since the spring, according to the Public Health Agency of Canada.
Ontario News:
- Officials asking healthy people not to come to clinics next week due to shortage- Oct 31-09
- Toronto clinics open earlier for general public for high risk people only – Oct 29-09
- Long waits are been reported in Toronto (north York) vaccine clinics Oct-29-09
- Vaccines only available at vaccine clinics, not a walk in clinics or family doctors office Oct-28-09
- New approved batch of non boaster vaccine will be available for pregnant woman Oct-27-09
- No vaccines to be administered at schools for kids – Oct 27-09
