State Health Officials Prepare for Avian Flu

State Health and safety officials this week have been staging an avian flu drill.

They are preparing for a Pandemic in the event that a deadly flu virus in Asia starts making the jump from person to person.

The state's drill is scheduled to culminate tomorrow when official plan to innoculate some 5000 people for the normal flu virus.

The mass vaccination is meant to simulate what could happen should the pandemic hit and a vaccine is available.

Doctor Donovan Albertson, Chief of Staff and the Head of Emergency Medicine at Portsmouth Regional Hospital, has been taking part in the exercises.

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