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Flu Vaccine <br /> <br />Amount of vaccine ordered last year - 1000 doses - 100 vials <br /> <br />Amount of vaccine used 671 doses - 68 vials <br /> <br />Price per vial last year - $11.95 <br /> <br />Price per vial this year - $19.25 (Connaught) - A.H. Robins, CO. <br /> A.H. Robins will give full credit for returned <br /> unused vials. <br /> <br />Suggested amount to be ordered this year - 800 doses - 80 vials <br /> <br />The specific antigens in the 1981-82 vaccine are the same as those in the <br />1980-81 vadcine (A/Brazil, A/Bap~kbk,and B/Singapore) but the potency has <br />been doubled. The Public Health Service and CDC does not recommend using <br />a double dose of last year's vaccine, but recommends the more concentrated <br />1981-82 preparation. <br /> <br />The Medical Advisory Board recommends distribution of the vaccine to those <br />persons age 65 or over and those over the age of 13 with a chronic illnessl <br />In past years we have had a mass immunization clinic and also gave it through <br />the General Clinic, to nursing home residents,and to Home Health patients <br />with their physician's consent. <br /> <br /> <br />