Donated flu vaccine used up in Cape County

Tuesday, November 2, 2004

Amid a nationwide shortage of flu vaccine, over 200 community workers deemed "essential" by the Cape Girardeau County Public Health Department have received inoculations due to the generosity of a major local company. But having dispensed every drop of vaccine donated by Procter & Gamble, the county is now back where it started: Inundated with overwhelming public need and no vaccine to meet it.

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