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Bluefield (WVVA) - The Center for Disease Control says children and young adults are most at risk for the H1N1 virus, but what about our veterans?
Area VA hospitals want to keep veterans informed on the flu.
While most veterans are not most at risk for H1N1, health officials still suggest getting vaccinated when the vaccine becomes available.
However, it is important to not forget about the regular flu vaccine in worrying about the new strand of virus that is quickly spreading.
"I'm scared of both. I think they have equal potential to cause devastation so we have to be very careful and people have to have a reverence for both," says Brenda Rappold, Chief Pharmacist at the Beckley VA hospital.
The Beckley VA Medical Center received 200 doses of the H1N1 vaccine, but supplies went fast.
In following the CDC guidelines, the VA center can only give vaccines to those most susceptible to the flu.
The medical center is expecting more shipments of the vaccine and hopes it can immunize everyone in the next few months.
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