Metro clinic stops taking flu-shot appointments

ST. LOUIS PARK, Minn. (AP) — A suburban Minneapolis clinic says demand for the swine-flu vaccine is so great that the clinic is no longer accepting appointments for the vaccine.

Park Nicollet Clinic is asking the public to stop sending e-mail requests for H1N1 vaccine appointments. On Monday, the clinic shut down its flu-shot hot line after it was flooded with 120,000 phone calls in four hours.

The clinic announced last week that it had received 17,000 doses of swine flu vaccine. Park Nicollet was among the first 150 clinics in Minnesota to receive supplies of the vaccine.

Because the vaccine is in short supply nationwide, Minnesota officials are distributing supplies by lottery to clinics around the state.

Park Nicollet says it will notify patients when more vaccine supplies arrive.

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