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By Mark Heyne
11/5/2009 1:36:16 PM

Like many states, Kentucky is finding demand for H1N1 vaccine is exceeding supply. State epidemiologist, Doctor Kraig Humbaugh, says as of Wednesday Kentucky had been allocated 442,000 doses--enough to cover about 10 percent of the state's population. With short supply, he says the vaccine is being given to those most at risk from the virus. Humbaugh says most of the cases of H1N1 have been mild although a small percentage has led to serious illness. Kentucky has reported 18 deaths from swine flu. Two of those were in Kenton County this week. They involved a woman in her 50s who had no health problems and a woman in her 60s who had underlying conditions. Humbaugh says flu activity has been widespread in the state since mid-September and he doesn't see any change in that for the foreseeable future. He says most of the cases have been from H1N1 influenza. More than 99 percent of the flu specimens tested by the Department of Public Health have come back positive for swine flu.

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