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Mountaineer Timmy Eads to get flu shot

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West Virginia University Mountaineer Mascot Timmy Eads will help WVU School of Pharmacy students bring awareness to flu prevention by getting his flu shot in his buckskins.

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WHO and WHAT: West Virginia University Mountaineer Mascot Timmy Eads will help WVU School of Pharmacy students bring awareness to flu prevention by getting his flu shot in his buckskins. 

WHEN: Wednesday (Oct. 2), 1:30 p.m.

WHERE: Cook-Hayman Pharmacy Museum; First Floor, Robert C. Byrd Health Science Center-North. Morgantown, (located next to the WVU School of Pharmacy Dean’s Office).

NOTES: Student representatives from the WVU Chapter of the American Pharmacists Association – Academy of Student Pharmacists will administer the vaccine. WVU School of Pharmacy faculty member, Dr. Gretchen Garofoli will be available for interviews regarding information on the flu and flu vaccines.

-WVU-

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CONTACT: Christa Currey
Director of Marketing and Communications
WVU School of Pharmacy
304.293.7192; christa.currey@hsc.wvu.edu

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