Ind. officials: Kids overdue for 2nd vaccine dose

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Indiana health officials say more than 160,000 children across the state are overdue for a second dose of the swine flu vaccine.

The Indiana State Department of Health says in its weekly swine flu report that more than half of the nearly 300,000 Indiana children ages 6 months to 9 years who received one dose of the vaccine at least a month ago have not received a second dose.

The second dose is recommended to fully protect children against the swine flu.

The agency's medical director, Dr. Joan Duwve, says the first vaccine primes the immune system in young children but it's not adequate to protect all of them.