What is the reason being for H1N1 shots popular on Seacoast?
With the H1N1 virus hanging around, thousands of local residents in Portsmouth and York, Maine, took an opportunity Tuesday to be vaccinated against the flu. Two clinics were open to all residents, and they fought through high winds and frigid temperatures to get to them. While World Health Organization chief Dr. Margaret Chan said the worst of the outbreak appears to be over in Europe and the United States, she cautioned the virus could still mutate into a more dangerous form down the line. “One thing we need to guard against is the sense of complacency,” Chan said, adding that flu viruses are highly unpredictable. Regional health officials joined firefighters and police at Portsmouth High School, the facility selected because of its size to ease crowd management. Portsmouth Regional Hospital spokeswoman Nancy Notis said about 400 people had lined up to get vaccines in the first two hours, some arriving 90 minutes before the official start time, and by the end of the day, 940 resident
