BY KEITH UPCHURCH

kupchurch@heraldsun.com; 419-6612

DURHAM -- Another swine flu vaccination clinic will be held Wednesday for those at high risk for the disease, especially children under 10 who require a second vaccination.

The clinic will be from 3 to 7 p.m. at the National Guard Armory at 801 Stadium Drive. The vaccinations are free.

Gayle Harris, director of the Durham County Health Department, said Friday that the department had 904 doses of the nasal spray, 600 injectable doses for those 4 and older and 187 doses for children under 3. She said the department expects another vaccine shipment Tuesday, which could change those figures.

Initially, Wednesday's clinic was planned only for children under 10 who require a second vaccination. "But because we have some extra doses, we'll vaccinate whoever shows up in the [high risk] categories as long as the vaccines last,'' Harris said. "In looking at our supply, because we did get some in late, we can do more.''

The nasal spray is for those ages 2 to 49 who don't have asthma and are not pregnant, she said. Otherwise, they'll get shots.

"We would like to encourage people to pay attention to the high-risk groups, and if they fall into those groups, we would like to see them in our lines,'' Harris said.

Those groups include pregnant women, caregivers and household contacts of infants younger than 6 months old, those 6 months to 24 years old, those 25 to 64 years old with medical conditions and health care and emergency medical services workers.

Those under 18 must be with a parent or legal guardian.

Harris said there were fewer blacks at Wednesday's clinic than she would have liked to have seen.

''There are so many health disparities in that population,'' she said. "So for whatever reason, African-Americans in our community have more chronic illness, more asthma, so we really want them to show up.''

Harris said there will be more vaccinators at Wednesday's clinic, which will allow more people to be vaccinated per hour than at this week's clinic, which was held from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., when 2,351 doses were given.

More clinics will be held next month, she added.

For information about Durham County's H1N1 vaccine, call (919) 560-7882.