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Swine Flu Fright

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Swine Flu Fright

Published: Wed, 29 Jul 2009

Description: Washington prepares for worst case scenario of the H1N1 virus spreading through the nation's Capitol

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" Tuesday we told you the swine flu is hitting home here in Washington infecting some senate pages it's now called the H1N1 virus. And at several locations in the capital area plans are being made in case the worst of the flu. Is yet to -- correspondent Brian Wilson has some of the contingencies."

" If there -- massive outbreak of the H1N1 virus later this year the Pentagon might send in military troops to maintain order -- enforce quarantines. Our proposal from north com commander general victor Renoir now sits on the desk of secretary of defense Robert Gates but has not been approved. The plan calls for regional teams to respond at the direction of FEMA. -- development came just as hearings were held on Capitol Hill to get an update on the delivery of an H1N1. Vaccine. Bottom line they are working on it and that it will not be available for use for several more months. -- trials at the National Institutes of Health. And among the vaccine manufacturers that are now under way when it is ready a panel at the Centers for Disease Control recommends that health care workers pregnant women. And those who are between the age of six months and 24 years old -- as a rule get the shots first. The elderly should get the seasonal flu shots but should wait on the H1N1. Shots until the group's more risk have been vaccinated."

" The idea was after these other younger age groups have been addressed if supply is adequate. If global circumstances and -- epidemiological. Data -- permit vaccine could be offered at that time."

" Why -- medical experts so concerned it's the fact that the H1N1 virus is still claiming victims in summer not a traditional flu season. Even on Capitol Hill six -- pages are now in isolation because they have developed flu like symptoms. Doctors say it is very likely the H1N1 variety -- tests that -- confirmed that we're not done. The great fear is that H1N1. Will -- or mutate and come back stronger in the fall in other words what we saw last spring."

" Was. Perhaps just a dress rehearsal that's Homeland Security secretary Janet Napolitano. The Centers for Disease Control acknowledged today there may not be enough doses of the H1N1. Vaccine to go around. They've come up with -- just in case list of -- who will get the shots. In Washington Brian Wilson Fox News."

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