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Last Updated: 4:25 PM 11/19/09
Students at the University of Virginia attend a flu clinic Thursday to get their swine flu vaccines. University health officials gave the vaccine to students 24-years-old and younger.

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Virginia Health Officials Say They've Sent Out 1.2 Million H1N1 Doses

Last Updated: 1:37 PM 11/19/09
State health officials say they've allocated a total of 1.2 million doses of the H1N1 vaccine to Virginia sites in their overall campaign to vaccinate people against the so-called swine flu.

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