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Swine flu vaccine first doses are being administered in the United States today, at first targeting health-care workers as the country’s biggest influenza prevention program seeks to slow the pandemic. Among the first to have AstraZeneca Plc’s nasal spray vaccine are doctors and hospital workers in Marion County, Indiana, and Le Bonheur Children’s Medical Center in Memphis, Tennessee. About 600,000 tubes will be shipped by tomorrow, with shots coming later this week totaling 6 million to 7 million doses, said Bill Hall, spokesman for the Health and Human Services Department. Swine flu, or H1N1, is spreading widely in most U.S. states. The first H1N1 vaccines will be targeted at health-care workers, children, pregnant women and people with chronic conditions that put them at risk for complications. While the U.S. has ordered doses to cover all Americans, only half of U.S. adults plan to get the vaccine, according to a Harvard University poll... http://www.health-medication.info/u-s-...