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The Champaign-Urbana Public Health District and Illinois Public Media have joined together to bring you regular H1N1 updates. These updates are being distributed through WILL Connect and on WILL-TV and radio. Please comment on the videos posted here.

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What are you waiting for?

Over 50,000 people have been vaccinated against H1N1 in Champaign County.  This message is for the other 138,000 of you who haven’t been vaccinated.  What are you waiting for?  H1N1 vaccine is plentiful.  It is free. And it is available for everyone.  The vaccine is safe and effective.  H1N1 and all flu is preventable and can be very serious.  Three more people in Illinois died last week from complications of H1N1.  We have an opportunity to get vaccinated before another wave of H1N1 comes through our community.  Please consider getting vaccinated against H1N1 on M-F from 8-4 at CUPHD.  Take advantage of this opportunity to help keep our community safe.

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Prevention Measures are Working

Have you noticed people coughing and sneezing into their sleeves rather than their hands?  I have.  Have you noticed people washing their hands more thoroughly and more frequently?  I have.  Have you noticed more hand sanitizer available to you in public places?  I certainly have.  You know what else I have noticed?  Fewer sick people!  These simple prevention measures can prevent much more than H1N1.  Community Immunity is everyone’s job!  Thanks for doing your part!

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Plenty of Vaccine

We have plenty of H1N1 vaccine available for everyone in our community.  We continue to vaccinate Monday through Friday from 8 AM until 4 PM at our Public Health offices at 201 W. Kenyon in Champaign.  The vaccines are free and available for everyone.  We have plenty of both mist and injectable vaccine.  Nearly 50,000 people have been vaccinated in our county.  Please consider becoming one of them.  Flu is preventable.  Vaccination is THE best way to protect yourself and those around you.

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Vaccine Recall NOT Safety Related

You may have heard that there has been a non-safety, voluntary recall of some of the flu mist used in H1N1 vaccination.  If you or your child received any of the recalled H1N1 Flu Mist, you do not need to be concerned.  The mist was recalled because it may lose some of its effectiveness before its expiration date.  The vaccine is safe.  It was not recalled for any safety reason.  CUPHD and all of our community partners will stop using all of the recalled mist now, before its expiration date.  If you receive Flu Mist, you can rest assured that is is both safe AND effective.

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Myths

Myth:  You can get the flu from a flu shot.  Fact:  The vaccine is a killed virus.  You can not get the flu from a flu shot.  Myth:  H1N1 vaccine is experimental.  Fact:  The H1N1 vaccine is made the same way by the same manufacturers as seasonal flu vaccine has been.  It is fully licensed by the FDA.  Nothing about it is experimental.  The H1N1 vaccine is safe and it is the best way to prevent H1N1.

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Vaccine Available to All

Seniors 65 years and older—-the H1N1 flu vaccine is now available to you!  Vaccine is available at many locations throughout Champaign County including Champaign-Urbana Public Health District.  You can get a free vaccine at CUPHD Monday-Friday from 10:00 AM until 5:00 PM. Just walk-in.