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Hunt Regional Urges Vaccinations For Children

Centers for Disease Control, Immunize.org

Kim Saenz, the director of the Hunt Regional Emergency Centers in Commerce and Quinlan, urges parents to have their children receive flu vaccinations.  Hunt Regional recently issued a news release advcoating for vaccination.  Kim says that the Centers for Disease Control  reports 185 children (12 and under) died from the flu in 2017-18, the highest count since 2012-13, and of those, 80 percent had not been vaccinated for the flu.

John Mark Dempsey is the host of the public interest program The Blacklands Café from KETR News. Dempsey is also the play-by-play announcer for Commerce Tigers Football on 88.9 FM and on ketr.org.
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