Swine flu nasal vaccine now here

Whitman County’s allotment of nasal spray vaccines for the H1N1 virus, or swine flu, has been distributed to local health clinics.

The county last week received 350 doses of a vaccine which is sprayed into the nose, said Fran Martin, director of the county health department.

The spray will be distributed to those most vulnerable, namely people aged two to 24. Martin said the virus has killed four people in Spokane, all of whom were young and pregnant.

Where deaths from the normal flu typically strike older people, the swine flu affects a different set.

“This is definitely a young, young person...