Hundreds of Johnston County children got the H1N1 vaccine Tuesday.

"You just never know and you don't want a sick baby on your hands," said Carrie Baker, a parent who waited in line to get the vaccine at the Johnston County Public Health Department in Smithfield.

The department got its third shipment of the vaccine Monday. It offered the 900 doses to children under 18 at a walk-in clinic Tuesday afternoon.

As the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended, the county is focusing on vaccinating five priority groups: children, pregnant women, people taking care of children under six months old, health care workers, and EMS workers.

"We are trying to focus on those groups right now. We expect that again we will have enough vaccine eventually to vaccinate everyone who wants this vaccine," said Health Director Marilyn Pearson.

The 900 doses in this shipment were enough to vaccinate all the children who waited Tuesday.

But the state told the county not to expect as many doses during the next couple of weeks, according to Pearson.

For more information about how you can get the H1N1 vaccine in Johnston County, call the county's H1N1 pandemic hotline at 919-989-5600.