The influenza vaccine is now recommended for everyone from 6 months to 18 years, as well as everyone 50 and older. (Star-Tribune file photo)
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)
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)
FILE - In this undated photo provided by Sanofi Pasteur, technicians perform production operations during a dry run at the company's influenza manufacturing facility in Swiftwater, Pa. Long seen as a sleepy, low-profit niche in the drug industry, this year investment in partnerships and other deals to develop and manufacture in vaccines is on a tear, seen as a crucial new path to growth. (AP Photo/Sanofi Pasteur, David W. Coulter) NO SALES
FILE - In this undated photo provided by Sanofi Pasteur, technicians perform production operations during a dry run at the company's influenza manufacturing facility in Swiftwater, Pa. Long seen as a sleepy, low-profit niche in the drug industry, this year investment in partnerships and other deals to develop and manufacture in vaccines is on a tear, seen as a crucial new path to growth. (AP Photo/Sanofi Pasteur, David W. Coulter) NO SALES
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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