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EL PASO, Texas -- The El Paso Department of Public Health has run out of the H1N1 flu vaccine, city health officials said Wednesday morning.

City health clinics distributed remaining doses of the H1N1 flu nasal spray vaccine this week. In all, the department administered about 13,000 doses of the vaccine in shot and spray form in the last week.

The Department of Public Health has ordered about 14,000 more vaccine doses, but officials said they do not know when it will arrive.

For more information from the city about the H1N1 flu, call 211 or visit www.elpasotexas.gov/health/h1n1.asp.

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by ABC-7 Web Producer Annette Arrigucci