Cypress Health Region announced on Friday clinics held in Shaunavon, Leader, Maple Creek and Eastend would be expanded to include children in grades K-6.
This age group is in addition to children between the ages of six months and five years, pregnant women, women who have given birth up to four weeks post-partum and healthcare workers.
These clinics will be held on Nov. 10 and Nov. 12.
Clinics may be extended to include other risk groups, but information is not available yet. If the clinics are extended, The Badger will publish the new …

Last week, my father moved from Winnipeg to Leader. Now, born and raised in Montreal, he also lived in Jasper and Edmonton before settling down in Winnipeg for the last 40 years or so.
I was scheduled to fly to Winnipeg to help him move, but that plan was thrown awry by a sudden and debilitating flu-like illness. Perfect timing.

Cypress Health Region is expanding vaccination to children in the early grades.
For more information about clinic locations and who qualifies, click here.

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Dear editor,
I was speaking to a gentleman on the street yesterday about the H1N1 Vaccine. I could not help but note the irony of the situation when he stated, “I’m not going to let someone put a needle of junk in me” as I watched him work his way through his first pack of a two-pack a day tobacco habit.

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