Students in larger communities like Sioux City, may be out of luck when it comes to defending themselves against H1N1.

Because of the limited availability of the H1N1 vaccine, the Siouxland District Health Department is only hosting flu clinics in the smaller school districts of Woodbury County.

Linda Drey with Siouxland District Health says, "When we have 500 doses of vaccine or so we can't hardly do a public clinic in Sioux City, or do one of the Sioux City schools or a larger community district, because we don't have enough vaccine for all students and we don't want to be in a position where we can offer some students vaccine in a school and others, not."

And superintendents of these select schools know how fortunate they are.

Superintendent of Woodbury Central School District, Doug Glackin, says, "We were very excited. I informed that we were trying to get this done and had called and have been working with Siouxland District Health on our health issues and they told us we'd have plenty of vaccines to cover all of our 600 kids if they need be."

Parents of Sioux City students agree its unfortunate their children can't be vaccinated at this time, but most of them understand there are other ways to keep kids healthy in the meantime.

One Sioux City Parent, LaTonya Dotson, says, "If they get a cough or fever or something, I always give them Tylenol or Motrin, I give them sanitizer and let them know to constantly wash their hands with it and wash their hands after they do anything and they've been pretty healthy."

Tips that the health department wants to encourage all parents and students to follow.

Siouxland District Health representatives say students in larger populated schools will be able to get vaccinated eventually, it just may take a couple months before the vaccine becomes more readily available.

The next flu clinic for students is tomorrow morning at Lawton-Bronson.