By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Editor
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Health department staffers scrambling to answer 100 calls a day. Harried hospital workers rushing to swab hundreds of sore throats. Out of practice school nurses learning how to give vaccines all over again.
City and state health department officials from across the United States say that while the H1N1 swine flu pandemic may be mild in terms of mortality rates, it is killing them in terms of workload.
And they are dreading the task of vaccinating tens of millions of people against the new virus beginning in October. Read More…
