Ind. Doctor Among 1st to Get Swine Flu Vaccination

Fred Massoomi, pharmacy operations coordinator at Methodist Hospital in Omaha, Neb., holds five...

Fred Massoomi, pharmacy operations coordinator at Methodist Hospital in Omaha, Neb., holds five doses of swine flu vaccine, part of the first shipment of swine flu vaccine, Monday, Oct. 5, 2009. Omaha's Methodist Health System received 300 doses of the swine flu vaccine Monday morning in one of the first shipments to the state.(AP Photo/Nati Harnik)

(AP)

A group of Indiana health care workers is among the first in the nation to be vaccinated against the swine flu.

Officials in Indiana and Tennessee set events for Monday to administer nasal mist doses of the swine flu vaccine to doctors, nurses, emergency medical workers and other health care professionals who work directly with patients.

Indiana's first dose was administered to Dr. Charles Miramonti, an emergency room physician at Wishard Memorial Hospital in Indianapolis. He was given the FluMist vaccine in front of a bank of television cameras at an event attended by Gov. Mitch Daniels.

Initial shipments of the nasal mist vaccine are so small that in most cases they're being reserved for health workers.

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