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Monday, November 23, 2009

Photo: Bird Flu Shots Should Go to Elderly, Kids Last, Experts Say


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A syringe ejects water as health care workers perform a mass vaccination exercise on March 29, 2006, in Bolton, England. The practice vaccinations were part of an exercise to test the time and logistics of mass immunization in the event of a flu pandemic.

When limited vaccine supplies are available, U.S. bioethics experts suggest, priority should be given to those between early adolescence and middle age.

Photograph by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images