Immunisation
Cylas stops breathing every night. This year, more than 26,000 children caught the same disease
Australia is experiencing its worst whooping cough epidemic on record driven by a rise in cases among children as vaccination rates dip.
- by Kate Aubusson
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Vaccination
Councils say new state charges put kids’ vaccine program at risk
Councils say they were promised free use of the state’s immunisation record platform – until the Department of Health sent the bill.
- by Rachel Eddie
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Healthcare
‘Sex bubbles’: Why Victorians should keep a list of their sex partners
The state is in the grip of its largest mpox outbreak, with 76 cases detected over the past three months, compared with just eight cases last year.
- by Henrietta Cook
Queensland Health says state at risk of measles, mumps and whooping cough outbreaks
“Alarming” low vaccination rates in Queensland show the state is at risk of outbreaks of children’s diseases including tetanus, measles, mumps, rubella and whooping cough.
- by Tony Moore
What’s the next pandemic? Scientists are already working on a vaccine
As we emerge from the darkest days of COVID-19, scientists are now turning their attention to what they have coined “Disease X” – an unknown, highly infectious virus that could cause the next pandemic.
- by Henrietta Cook
Two deaths, including an infant, spark push for free meningococcal B vaccination
Vaccination for the disease is optional and costs families up to $360 per child, but with seven cases detected this year, the outgoing chief health officer has issued a warning to doctors.
- by Henrietta Cook
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Coronavirus pandemic
No truth to anti-vaxxers’ claims linking COVID vaccine and sudden cardiac arrest: study
Persistent and unsubstantiated claims that linked the coronavirus vaccine to the sudden deaths of young people have been dispelled by new research.
- by Henrietta Cook
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Coronavirus pandemic
Free COVID jabs for young people might not be good policy any more. Here’s why
As evidence shows COVID-19 booster shots for young, healthy people make little difference, experts are questioning whether the government should be offering them free.
- by Liam Mannix
New COVID wave hits Victoria, but experts buoyed by immunity ‘great wall’
Cases and hospitalisations have risen 20 per cent in the past week across the state, amid warnings about the risks of long COVID.
- by Henrietta Cook
Boost for Qld research in fight against disease that breaks hearts
It’s hoped work by Queensland researchers can help prevent a devastating infection that causes heartbreaking complications, even when it isn’t fatal.
- by Stuart Layt
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Coronavirus pandemic
Under-vaccinated elderly fill Victorian COVID wards
Frontline Melbourne clinicians say many of the elderly COVID patients they are now treating were vaccinated, but haven’t had a booster shot recently.
- by Aisha Dow
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