POSTPONED - Brown-Lupton Health Center to offer free seasonal flu shots to students

Fort Worth, TX

11/17/2009

TCU is offering its remaining supply of seasonal flu vaccine free to students in a clinic at the Brown-Lupton Health Center November 21 from 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. December 3 from 5 - 7 p.m. The vaccine is available to the first 800 students who show their TCU ID.  The Health Center will send the necessary forms via email before the clinic. These need to be filled out and brought to the event. The event marks the last opportunity of the year to receive a seasonal flu vaccine at TCU. The vaccine is also available Monday – Friday during regular business hours (9 a.m. - 4 p.m.) at the Health Center.

If you are interested in receiving the seasonal flu shot, please make sure to wear a short-sleeved shirt as this will speed up the process. Everyone receiving a shot will be asked to fill out a form. As stated earlier, manufacturers of the vaccine encountered distribution challenges resulting in fewer doses earlier last month.  TCU recently received more of its allotted over the past couple of weeks.

For more information on the flu, or updated information on the anticipated H1N1 vaccine, please visit www.tcu.edu/fluinfo.asp.  For information on the clinic, please call 817-257-5266.
 
WHO:        TCU students

WHAT:    Free seasonal flu vaccine clinic

WHEN:    Saturday, November 21, 2009; 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. Thursday, December 3, 2009; 5 - 7 p.m.

WHERE:    Brown-Lupton Health Center

CONTACT:    Marilyn Hallum, 817-257-5266

H1N1 Vaccine

For those interested in the H1N1 vaccine, Tarrant County Public Health has received a large number of doses of injectable H1N1 influenza vaccine. The organization will distribute the vaccine at several events in the near future.

The vaccine is available to all people in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention target groups: pregnant women, household contacts and caregivers for children younger than 6 months of age, health-care and emergency medical services personnel, all people from 6 months through 24 years of age and people 25 through 64 years of age who have health conditions associated with a higher risk of medical complications from influenza.

For up-to-date H1N1 vaccine information, call 2-1-1 or check the Tarrant County Public Health Web site at http://health.tarrantcounty.com.