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Public Schools, and the Orange County Sheriff's Office held a mass vaccination exercise in Cedar Ridge's <br />gymnasium Wednesday afternoon. The Herald-Sun | Whitney Keller <br /> <br />Buy Now <br /> The Herald-Sun | Whitney Keller <br />Participants wait in line to receive a simulated vaccination during a full-scale public health preparedness exercise at <br />Cedar Ridge High School in Hillsborough on March 9, 2016. Orange County Health Department in partnership with <br />Orange County Emergency Services, Orange County Public Schools, and the Orange County Sheriff's Office held a <br />mass vaccination exercise in Cedar Ridge's gymnasium Wednesday afternoon. The Herald-Sun | Whitney Keller <br />HILLSBOROUGH -- Cammie Albert got a whooping cough shot Wednesday, and she <br />didn't feel a thing. <br />That's because she and other volunteers participated in a simulated mass vaccination at <br />Cedar Ridge High School to prepare officials if a real health emergency happens. <br />The public health preparedness exercise was sponsored by the Orange County Health <br />Department and other county agencies. <br />Volunteers gathered in the school's gym to fill out paperwork and get their "shots". <br />On Target Preparedness was hired to oversee the exercise. <br />"The Centers for Disease Control and the state require health departments to participate <br />in a full-scale exercise that does mass vaccinations or dispenses medications every five <br />years," On Target owner David Hasselmeyer said. "Any lessons learned will be <br />incorporated into future training exercises."