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Friday, October 16, 2009

Swine flu vaccine starts arriving in Sacramento; much more to come - Sacramento News - Local and Breaking Sacramento News | Sacramento Bee


Swine flu vaccine starts arriving in Sacramento; much more to come - Sacramento News - Local and Breaking Sacramento News Sacramento Bee:

"Kennedy Joplin's roar was deafening – perhaps excruciating for her father, Steven Joplin.

The 2-year-old squirmed and wailed on Thursday as a nurse sprayed into her nostrils one of the Sacramento region's first doses of the H1N1 vaccine.

'It hurts me, too. I don't like seeing daddy's little princess cry,' said Joplin, a soldier based in Fairbanks, Alaska, doing his fatherly duties before returning to his military duties. 'She spends a lot of time with other kids in child care, and with flu season coming, better safe than sorry.'"