OXFORD — Two hundred doses of injectable H1N1 flu vaccine have been received by the Oxford Hills School District, and another 1,600 in mist and injectable forms are due by the end of the week, head nurse Ann Johnson said Wednesday.

“We are very excited that we’ll be able to get our kids all vaccinated,” she said. Cases of the H1N1 flu in the Oxford Hills School District continues to remain “spotty,” Gray added.

Flu clinics have been set up for the first week of November, starting with the Hebron Station and Guy E. Rowe Elementary schools in Hebron and Norway, respectively, on Nov. 3.

West Paris and Paris elementary schools are set for clinics on Nov. 4, followed by elementary schools in Oxford and Otisfield and Oxford Hills Middle School in Paris on Nov. 5. On Nov. 6, Harrison and Waterford elementary schools and Oxford Hills Comprehensive High School in Paris will have their clinics.

Marcye Gray, special education director who supervises the school nurses, said student permission slips are coming in “fast and furious” as the times for the clinics near. There is no count yet of how many parents gave their children permission to be vaccinated, but based on permission slips received for the seasonal flu vaccine clinic last month, the school ordered 1,800 doses of H1N1 vaccine.

“We think we have enough, which is a good thing,” she said.

In September, 1,400 students, or 30 percent of the district’s students, received the seasonal flu vaccine. A total of 200 students had to receive a second dose because they were under the age of 9 and had not had the seasonal flu before, Gray said.

The H1N1 clinics are for students only. It’s not known when the vaccine will be available to staff, Gray said.

As of Oct. 21, 900 doses of H1N1 vaccine had been distributed to the
Oxford Hills area. Gould Academy in Bethel received a shipment of 200 doses last week when students and staff began to contract the flu.

There have been 22 confirmed cases in Oxford County, nine of them being out-of-state visitors, according to the Maine Center for Disease Control.

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