Clinics Offer Flu Immunizations

As the flu season nears, health organizations are setting up the first lines of defense with scores of low-cost immunization clinics across the county.

Last year clinics in Ventura County immunized more than 10,000 people, said Lin Glusac, an immunization coordinator with the Ventura County Public Heath Department.

This year, clinics will vaccinate county residents in high-risk groups including people over 60, care givers, health care workers and children and adults with chronic medical problems who would develop serious complications from the flu, Glusac said.

Some clinics will also offer pneumococcal and tetanus shots.

The first clinic will be open Saturday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at 2705 Loma Vista Road in Ventura. Many clinics in Oxnard, Simi Valley, Camarillo, Santa Paula and other cities will offer immunizations on various days through December.

For more information, call 652-5928 in Ventura, 385-8652 in Oxnard and 584-4887 in Simi Valley.

The Livingston Memorial Visiting Nurse Assn. will sponsor immunization clinics at senior centers and drugstores across the county from Sept. 29 until Nov. 11.

For more information on the Livingston Memorial clinics, call (818) 616-7468.

Many local hospitals will also offer immunization clinics.