September 15, 2005
It’s not the shot that stings, it the shot of reality that Campbell County has a serious Hepatitis-A problem.
“It’s just been a bad ongoing deal,” says Campbell County citizen Red White.
The Tennessee Regional Health Office bluntly calls it a community-wide outbreak. Hep-A keeps being passed from person to person. That’s why hundreds are lining up for free injections of immune serum globulin, the recipe for preventing Hep-A in those exposed.

“I know the citizens there are very concerned and we’re concerned too and we’re doing everything we can possibly do,” says Sandy Halford, the assistant director of the Tennessee Regional Health office.
And this is the biggest step so far. The Health Department plans to give out three-thousand shots in two days at the spacious LaFollette Church of God.
Five-hundred people showed up in the first hour of Thursdays clinic.
“It’s been a little inconvenient because I had to stand outside in the hot sun for a while in the line and take half a work day to come down here and do it, but it’s just a bad deal all around,” says Red White.
The outbreak started in April with two dozen cases and more keep popping up. The Tennessee Regional Health Office says it could still take weeks or months before Hep A begins to disappear.
There’s another opportunity to get the shots on Friday at the church from 11am to 6pm at 1906 Jacksboro Pike in LaFollette.
Mark Schnyder , Reporter