Canada approves H1N1 vaccine

[Swede]

Source: Globe and Mail

Canada's health regulator has approved the country's H1N1 influenza vaccine, The Globe and Mail has learned.

It will now be moved out of provincial and territorial warehouses and sent to local public health authorities so they can begin immunizing the population as soon as possible.

The authorization by Health Canada will be announced at a news conference later today and will mark the beginning of the country's largest immunization campaign, a federal official has confirmed.


Read more: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/canada-approves-h1n1-vaccine/article1331901/

[JBoy]

1. Rick Mercer did a good bit on this last night

Health Canada is encouraging everyone to get the shot. But they only have a million doses stockpiled. Canada's population is 35 million. So he figures he needs to strangle 35 people on the way to the clinic.