INFLUENZA VACCINE
Free supplies considered fK.7. Press Association f WELLINGTON, Jan. 17. The Health Department is studying the possibility of providing free influenza vaccine for groups most likely to be at risk. The assistant director of the Public Health Division (Dr C. M. Collins) said today that it had not been the department’s policy in the past to provide free vaccines, but the idea was being looked at, although no decision had been made. The department had recommended the groups who were most in need of inoculation against influenza. These were pensioners, and people with heart and lung conditions and metabolic diseases. Today Glaxo Laboratories (N.Z.), Ltd, announced the arrival of its vaccine for protection against the “London strain” virus which killed 1700 people in Britain this winter.
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Press, Volume CXIII, Issue 33128, 19 January 1973, Page 11
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