Reuters visited the Boston Children's Hospital Primary Care Center, where H1N1 vaccines are being offered to patients who are at least two years old and healthy.

A clown performs during “Slava’s Snowshow”, a stage show created and staged by Russian clown Slava Polunin, in Madrid October 7, 2009.  REUTERS/Juan Medina

A general view of the new PS20 solar plant which was inaugurated last month at “Solucar” solar park in Sanlucar La Mayor, near Seville, October 7, 2009. The solar thermal power plant uses mirrors to concentrate the sun’s rays onto towers where they produce steam to drive a turbine, producing electricity.   REUTERS/Marcelo del Pozo

A man points to a wall torn down by high winds from the third floor of a house in Tsuchiura City, Ibaraki Prefecture north of Tokyo October 8, 2009. Typhoon Melor barrelled into Japan’s main island on Thursday, disrupting flights and trains, closing some factories and tearing roofs off houses, but damage was much less than had been feared.  REUTERS/Kyodo

Women pray during the Hindu festival of Karva Chauth inside a temple in the northern Indian city of Chandigarh October 7, 2009.    REUTERS/Ajay Verma

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