Vaccine for risk groups, not banks: CDC
November 6, 2009
High-risk groups first -- that's the message the White House is reinforcing regarding the swine-flu vaccine.
The head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention "is sending a letter to every state and city receiving vaccine to reiterate that vaccine should be going to priority groups," press secretary Robert Gibbs said Thursday, responding to a report that firms including Citigroup and Goldman Sachs got small quantities of the vaccine.
7 dead in isolated Indian group
In a sign of just how far H1N1 swine flu has spread, it has been confirmed among Venezuela's Yanomami Indians, one of the most-isolated indigenous groups in the world. Seven deaths have been reported.
