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By Allison Bray and Eimear Ni Bhraonain Saturday July 04 2009 EVERYONE in the country is shortly to be offered a free swine flu vaccination as health authorities brace themselves for a worst-case scenario of up to 100,000 new cases a week. The vaccines -- which will cost the Exchequer €88m -- will be administered either through GPs or a network of 121 swine flu clinics. They will be set up nationwide as soon as sufficient amounts of the vaccine are available in late summer or early autumn, the Health Services Executive confirmed last night. The clinics will be provided in public buildings and sports halls. They will be open 12 hours a day, seven days a week, to deal with the growing pandemic. The Department of Health has so-called "sleeping contracts" with pharmaceutical giants SmithGlaxoKline and Baxter Pharmaceuticals for... [read full story]
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