Swine Flu Vaccination Starts at 125 N.Y.C. Schools
New York
New York City officials began administering swine flu vaccine to schoolchildren Wednesday in an effort to head off a repeat of last spring's outbreak that sickened hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers and closed dozens of schools.
In the first phase of the program, students at 125 of the city's smaller elementary schools started receiving the vaccine in either the nasal spray or injection form.
"It kind of hurt a little," said 9-year-old Jessica Osorio, who got a swine flu shot at Public School 157 in Brooklyn. "I was a little nervous but then I...
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