People wearing protective face masks ride in a bus as it passes in front of the National Institute of Respiratory Illnesses in Mexico City. A fatal strain of swine flu has been detected in Mexico while the virus has been confirmed or suspected in at least a half-dozen other countries. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills)
Jamie Carpenter is the first person in Casper to be immunized with the H1N1 vaccine at Natrona County Health Department on Friday morning. Infants and school-aged children will be among the first to be immunized with the new influenza vaccine. (Tim Kupsick/Star-Tribune)
The H1N1 vaccine will be available to the public through the Natrona County Health Department on Oct. 24. (Tim Kupsick/Star-Tribune)
Dr. Mark E. Dowell talks with a patient at Rocky Mountain Infectious Diseases in Casper last month. Dr. Dowell, chief of staff at Wyoming Medical Center, and Dr. Carol Fischer, a family doctor in Cheyenne, treat most of Wyoming's HIV/AIDS patients. (Kerry Huller/Star-Tribune)
Matt Foertsch, a special operations tech at Casper-Natrona County Health Department, loads equipment onto a bus on Thursday afternoon in preparation for the swine flu vaccine clinic being held on Saturday. (Kerry Huller/Star-Tribune)
Packages of the swine flu vaccine are kept cool inside a refrigerator at the Casper-Natrona County Health Department on Thursday. The dosages will be distributed today in the first public swine flu vaccination clinics in Natrona County. (Kerry Huller/Star-Tribune)
Marianne Madariaga holds a nasal spray of the H1N1 vaccine Friday morning at the Casper-Natrona County Health Department. School-aged children are currently being targeted as the most vulnerable age group for the H1N1 virus, due to their exposure to large crowds of people. (Tim Kupsick/Star-Tribune)
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