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The Swine Flu vaccination clinic at Mayo General Hospital is now opening on Mondays only. There will be no clinic on Thursday February 11. It is intended that some of the staff from this clinic will be redeployed to work with the school vaccination teams in County Mayo.

Only 50 per cent of pupils offered the swine flu vaccine in schools have availed of the jab, according to the HSE West.

An adult male and a child - the first swine flu cases in the west - recently returned from New York, it was confirmed this week.

Further cases of swine flu are expected in city and county schools in the coming weeks and months, the HSE West warned this week.

Two cases of swine flu have been confirmed in the west according to the HSE.

Strict visitor restrictions are in place in St Luke’s General Hospital for Carlow/Kilkenny, in an effort to protect patients and staff and prevent further spread of swine flu.

The Cystic Fibrosis Association of Ireland has called on the HSE to ensure that Irish people with cystic fibrosis be vaccinated against the H1N1 virus at the same time as front line health workers.

An “unprecedented” number of businesses in Galway and Mayo have signed up to attend a swine flu seminar in the city next week.

There have been 53 confirmed cases of swine flu in the HSE west region. The area covers from Donegal down to Limerick and across to Tipperary. Eight four per cent of cases have presented in people less than 35 years of age.

Fine Gael TD, John O’Mahony, has called for the relaxation of the licensing regulation rules that govern the availability of medicine in Ireland to allow for the speedier distribution of the swine flu vaccination.