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NYC 9/11 Public Portal Document

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“thousands of seniors in this bor­ ough” stand to benefit from this Seniors are not the only New Yorkers at risk of catching the flu. §E program. Also falling into the high risk Qu

I group are nursing-home and Staten Island senior citizen cen­ chronic-care facility residents; HK ters scheduled to offer the free persons with heart, circulatory, shots include: lung or kidney problems; people MH BBerry Houses Friendship with compromised immune sys- © Club, 211 JetterSOlTSt., Wuv. £7.—•—terns- nrevnant women in the sec- > ond or third trimester, and chit- ■ Cassidy-Coles Senior Center, dren between the ages of 6 months 125 Cassidy Pl., Nov. 7, and 18 years who are on long-term ■ West Brighton Senior Center, aspirin therapy. 230 Broadway, Nov. H. New Yorkers seeking informa­ I Ml ■ South Beach Senior Center, tion on the flu can call the city’s 12G Lamport Blvd Nov. 7. toll-free flu information line at 1- -r. T . z, * 866-FLU LINE (1-866-358-5463) or ■ Our Lady of Pity Golden Age Health Department’s Web Center, 1616 Richmond Ave., Nov. gj nyc gov/tiealth. -rib e ■ New Dorp Beach Friendship ■ -So-far-there.haVP-been a dozen confirmed cases of anthrax na- 8 Q Club, 128 Cedar Grove Ave., Nov. tionwide, including at least four in IS § H 26. New York City. H City officials said pneumonia vaccine shots are also available at The city’s cases have involved 5« the skin form of the disease. Two M o 1^ the centers. While flu shots should postal workers have died in Wash- KJ ho taVpn annually, the Health ington, D.C,, and two others are s Department says that if an initial sutterlllg ti'Uiii the much more co —■ § Q O pneumonia shot is taken at age 65 or older, no further shots are re- rious inhalation form of anthrax. health officials have ASSOCIATED PRESS, g opted to treat thousands of postal Mayor Rudolph Giuliani grimaces as he gets a flu shot from o If the initial shot is taken before workers who may have come in nurse Sarah Townley, as Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik cn I the age of 65, it is recommended contact with letters tainted with k) o that shots be repeated every five the bacteria. The workers are looks on at City Hall. o years thereafter. being given the antibiotic Cipro. o co CaJ

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