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Last updated on Thursday, January 4, 2018
(UNDATED) - If you recently received a vaccine or TB skin test at a Walgreens clinic operated by Community Health Network, you may have to get another one.
Community Health Network recently mailed letters to 1,600 patients, warning the flu shots and other vaccines they received at central Indiana clinics may not have been fully effective.
Community Health Network said they found a problem with the temperature control system during an internal safety check. That malfunction may have caused some vaccines not to be fully effective.
Community Health Network immediately suspended the administration of vaccinations at all Community Clinic at Walgreens locations until new thermometers could be installed.
Officials have contacted individuals who received potentially ineffective vaccines, are reimbursing them and offered to revaccinate them at no charge.
Receiving a second, effective vaccination poses no additional health risk.
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