Albertan health officials are concerned about getting complacent about the H1N1 virus since only about a quarter of the province’s residents have volunteered to get flu shots.

Even the reopening of mass vaccination clinics to the public on Monday could not increase the number of people willing to get flu shots. There were shorter lineups in comparison to the overwhelming demand when the program started in October.

The aim is to vaccinate at-least 70 percent of the population against swine flu, but only about 23 percent Albertans have been inoculated.

Dr. Glen Armstrong, head of the microbiology and infectious diseases department at the University of Calgary said,” People may be getting lulled into a false sense of complacency and the thinking out there may be that the flu season's over and that this has all passed us by and everything is safe now and they don't need to get vaccinated."

Armstrong requested Albertans to get their H1N1 shots now, while lines are still manageable, rather than waiting until the third wave hits and clinics are overwhelmed again.