Durham, N.C. – As small shipments of the vaccination for novel H1N1 begin arriving, the Durham County Health Department is set to unveil plans for inoculation of residents. The Durham County Health Department will hold a joint news conference with Duke Health System on Monday, October 12, at 10:30a.m., to explain upcoming actions and to answer questions from the media. The news conference will be held in the Durham Board of County Commissioners’ Chambers, located at 200 E. Main Street, on the second floor.

Gayle B. Harris, director of the Durham County Public Health Department, and Dr. Cameron R. Wolfe, a physician with the Duke University Medical Center Division of Infectious Diseases, will conduct the conference. For more information regarding the scheduled news conference, contact Dawn D. Dudley, public information specialist for the Durham County Manager’s Office, at 919-560-0008, or via e-mail at ddudley@durhamcountync.gov.