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Direct Connect: Swine Flu Update

08/19/09 Central Oregon

 

Shannon Dames, the communicable disease director for the Deschutes County Health Department is here on Direct Connect tonight to give an update on the Swine Flu in Deschutes County and what health officials expect.

 

Heading into the fall and winter, the colder months, health officials across the U.S. are worried about the spread of swine flu and how crazy things will get. What's Swine flu like here in Deschutes County right now? How many people have had contracted it? What should people do to prepare and what is Deschutes County expecting?

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