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Scavenger hunt for flu shots.

The Wichita Eagle (Wichita, KS)

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Byline: Karen Shideler

Nov. 4--One headline proclaims "Flu vaccine plentiful."

Another warns "Flu vaccine may be hard to find."

Which is it?

Both.

Flu vaccine doesn't seem to be in short supply this year, as it was a year ago. But distribution delays mean some health providers have used up their vaccine and some continue to limit who can get a flu shot.

The Sedgwick County Health Department has given more than 7,000 flu shots so far and will have a flu shot clinic, open to anyone, on Saturday at Towne East Square.

The Butler County Health Department, by contrast, has received only a third of what it ordered, so…

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