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Texas inmates not priority for vaccine
By chron.com
Published: 10/29/2009

AUSTIN — State health officials say Texas prisoners are not a priority to get swine flu vaccine and will not be vaccinated ahead of the general public.

The Department of State Health Services says Texas has not allocated any H1N1 vaccine to prisons yet. Texas is initially targeting priority groups most at risk, such as pregnant women.

DSHS says health care providers who serve pregnant women in prisons have requested the vaccine. A statement Wednesday said it is unclear when Texas will be able to fill those orders “given the limited national supply of the vaccine.”

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