The Virginian-Pilot
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NORFOLK
Children, young adults and day care providers who show up at the Virginia Zoo on Wednesday can get in free if they agree to an extra bonus: a free H1N1 flu vaccine.
Norfolk's public health officials teamed up with Virginia Zoological Park for "The Virginia Zoo and H1N1 too!" day. The vaccine will be given to those who are 6 months through 24 years of age and day care providers, who are all high-risk groups for H1N1, or swine flu.
Both the nasal spray and the injectable vaccine will be available for free from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the zoo, 3500 Granby St.
The first 500 children to be vaccinated will also receive a free train ride.
Health officials are reminding parents and caregivers of children 9 and younger that if their children received their first shot, they need a second dose four weeks later to have full immunity to the virus.
Vaccines will not be administered at the event without parental consent. Consent forms will be available there, or they can be downloaded on the Norfolk public schools' H1N1 Web site, http://tinyurl.com/y95h5ah.
For more information, contact the Norfolk Department of Public Health at (757) 683-2801 or (757) 683-2796.
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now that the threat has passed
Now that the threat has passed and our incompetent Executive Branch nationalized and socialized a vaccine that never made it to the people, we must bribe people to get them to consume this inoculation. Swine flu was not the threat it was made out to be. Rahm Emmanuel, our president's "right hand man" has said that the Obama Administration would never let a crisis go to waste. He obviously meant imagined / created crises. Interestingly, there appears no shortage of the non-nationalized seasonal flu vaccine. Pray that these buffoons don't nationalize gasoline, wheat, dairy products or produce.