H1N1 flu may be the most talked about bug, but the old-fashioned seasonal flu — which kills more than 33,000 Americans annually — is still a threat, and vaccines for the seasonal flu are running low in some places in metro Detroit.

Oakland County health officials said that they exhausted their supply of seasonal flu vaccine Thursday.

By late Thursday afternoon, Macomb County had about 4,400 vaccines left out of 17,000 ordered, said Tom Kalkofen, director of the county health department. Wayne County was down to a couple hundred doses, though officials there have administered most of their yearly allotment.

“Production has shifted to the H1N1 vaccine,” said George Miller, director of Health and Human Services for Oakland County. “We were prepared to do both, and it’s unfortunate the feds weren’t.”

Source/Full Story: Freep.com

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