H1N1 VACCINES AVAILABLE THIS WEEK 

Fort Worth, Texas - Tarrant County Public Health will begin distributing over 14,000 doses of injectable H1N1 vaccine on Thursday, Nov. 19, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Resource Connection gymnasium, 1200 Circle Drive, Fort Worth.    

On Friday, November 20, the H1N1 influenza vaccine will be available, as long as supplies last, at Tarrant County’s seven public health centers:

• Arlington Public Health Center, 536 W. Randol Mill Road, Arlington
• Bagsby-Williams Public Health Center, 3212 Miller Avenue, Fort Worth
• Northeast Public Health Center, 813 Brown Trail, Bedford
• Northwest Public Health Center, 3800 Adam Grubb Road, Lake Worth
• Southwest Public Health Center, 6551 Granbury Road, Fort Worth
• La Gran Plaza Mall, 4200 S. Freeway, Fort Worth
• Watauga Public Health Center, 6601 Watauga Road, Suite 122, Watauga 

Additionally, Tarrant County Public Health will hold its third one-day vaccination event on Tuesday, Nov. 24, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., at the Arlington Convention Center, 1200 Ballpark Way. 

The vaccine will be available to all people in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention target groups: pregnant women, household contacts and caregivers for children younger than 6 months of age, health-care and emergency medical services personnel, all people from 6 months through 24 years of age and people 25 through 64 years of age who have health conditions associated with a higher risk of medical complications from influenza.           

For more information, call 2-1-1 or check the Tarrant County Public Health Web site at http://health.tarrantcounty.com

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