Swine flu: Chicago begins offering inoculations at airports

Cynthia Dizikes
Chicago Tribune
Thursday, Nov 26th, 2009

As they battle the holiday crowds this weekend, frazzled travelers at Chicago airports also will have the option of stopping to get protection against the swine flu virus.

A clinic at O'Hare International Airport run by the University of Illinois at Chicago began offering H1N1 flu vaccines in nasal mist form this week. City officials say the clinic also hopes to receive arm-shot vaccines this week and plans to open kiosks to administer the mist form of the vaccine at both O'Hare and Midway this weekend.

"We feel that it is a good amenity and service for travelers passing through the airport as well as the employees working at the airport," said Gregg Cunningham, a spokesman for the Department of Aviation.

City officials said the UIC clinic at O'Hare now has several hundred doses of the nasal mist, which it is offering in Terminal 2 to qualified individuals. They would not specify how many more doses of the hard-to-find vaccine the clinic had ordered or how many were expected this week.

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