Both Nassau and Suffolk's health departments and at least one Long Island hospital got their first shipments of the swine flu vaccine Monday - 1,000 doses each.
The counties are targeting high-risk groups determined by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: healthy people between the ages of 2 and 24 and those up to age 49 who are caregivers of children under 6 months old.
The first shipments include only the live flu vaccine delivered in a nasal mist, which pregnant women and children between 6 months and age 2 should not take. Those groups will be given priority when the second vaccine shipment - which is expected to include vaccine delivered by a shot - arrives later in October, the state health department said.
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