Through a pair of upcoming free clinics, Montgomery County health officials are trying to turn parents on to the value of a fairly new flu vaccine administered nasally rather than by injection.

The clinics are part of an overall state effort to promote the effectiveness of the FluMist vaccine for children, said Mary Anderson, spokeswoman for the county’s Health and Human Services Department.

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