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5 local health agencies unite to offer flu shots

Email|Link|Comments (0) Posted by Karen Weintraub November 27, 2007 05:28 PM

By Stephen Smith, Globe Staff

Five local health departments are banding together this coming weekend to offer free flu vaccinations to adults and children.

Flu shots and a spray version of the vaccine will be given from 10 a.m. to noon Saturday at Arlington Town Hall, 730 Massachusetts Ave. Anyone 6 months and older can receive the shots, while the spray known as FluMist is given only to people between 2 and 49 years old. A record amount of flu vaccine, 2.7 million doses, is expected this year in Massachusetts.

Pneumonia vaccine will also be available for adults 65 and older.

All Massachusetts residents are eligible and no appointment is needed to get a shot at the event, being sponsored by the Arlington, Belmont, Brookline, Newton, and Watertown health departments. For more information, call 781-316-3413.

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Elizabeth Cooney is a former health reporter for the Worcester Telegram & Gazette, where she also was a business reporter and an editor. Earlier in her career, she edited medical books and journals at Little, Brown, and worked for Boston magazine.