BONNIE COBLENTZ
Starkville school officials on Tuesday gave their consent to a state Health Department program to vaccinate the district’s school children against the H1N1 virus.
The board gave consent without a vote to allow the Mississippi Department of Health, operating through the local health department, to offer free H1N1 immunizations to all school children in the Starkville School District. The immunizations will be administered during the first week of December.
Marsha Eaves, Mississippi Department of Health District IV immunization nurse, told the board about the plan to vaccinate students for the virus.
“What we know about the novel H1N1 virus is that younger children and pregnant women are at the highest risk,” Eaves said. “In order to get to that population, we need to go through the schools.”
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