The state Department of Health is continuing its campaign to inoculate as many people in Hawaii against the H1N1 “swine” and this morning enlisted the aid of several University of Hawaii student athletes in the effort.

Dr. Sarah Park, state epidemiologist and Health Department Disease Outbreak Control and Prevention administered nasal spray vaccine to three UH women’s softball team members and a football player at the Stan Sheriff Center.
Park used the occasion to announce that vaccine supplies are gradually catching up with demand in Hawaii, and a more liberal policy that will allow the nasal spray to be used on any healthy, non-pregnant person ages 2 through 49.
Dr. Andy Nichols, interim director of the UH Manoa University Health Services program says campus student health center continues to see five to 15 students a week for “influenza like illness symptoms,” 95 to 99 percent of which turn out to be H1N1 flu cases.