Swine Flu Vaccine Clinic Draws Crowd

UPPER DUBLIN, Pa. - The Montgomery County Health Department is holding Thursday the first of two free walk-in swine flu vaccine clinics.

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It's scheduled to run from 10 a.m. until 1 p.m. at Congregation Beth Or on Welsh Road in Maple Glen.

By 9:30 a.m. the line was wrapped around the building with dozens of people trying to make sure they get a spot.

At noon, with an hour to go, people were still trickling in.

The clinic was targeted at children ages 5 to 9 and pregnant women. Those two groups have been designated high priority by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

But in the final hour officials opened up the clinic to people in a wider range of ages.

"Very concerned," was how one pregnant woman in line described herself. "When I went to see my O.B. over a month ago, he said, 'You really need to get this. It's affecting pregnant women to the point where it's devastating to pregnant women, and as soon as the shot's available, you need to get it.' You know, I was concerned about side effects, like everyone else, and my O.B. said, 'Dead is dead.' And that's much worse, obviously, for the baby, so he said, 'You try to be first in line if you can.'"

The woman said she and several of her friends who are pregnant been all been on the CDC Web site, doing research, talking to doctors and reading everything she can.

"I feel pretty educated on it," she said, telling Fox 29's Shawnette Wilson that her due date is in three weeks.

Another woman had her son by her side and said, "I want him to stay healthy. I don't want him to be sick."

The county's second clinic will be Friday at the Fairview Village Church of the Nazarene, located at 3044 West Germantown Pike in Eagleville.

The health department is asking people to go online and fill out a form to bring with you so they know whether you should get the nasal spray or a shot.

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