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Brisbane mother Amelia and her young family. Two of her children were hospitalised with influenza, while she herself was also battling an infection.

‘2025 could easily be another bad year’: Infections already spiking in Qld

Last winter, one Brisbane mother saw two of her children admitted to different hospitals as beds ran out. This year, infection rates are already high.

  • Catherine Strohfeldt

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Falling vaccination rates in this country endanger us all

Governments should set tougher targets for parts of the country that are being left behind and where children are in danger.

  • Peter Breadon and Wendy Hu
A dctor injecting a young child with a vaccination

Anti-vax parents share tips online on how to flout no jab, no play childcare laws

Experts have raised the alarm about anti-vaccine networks sharing tactics for skirting Victoria’s no jab, no play laws, while immunisation rates among children continue to decline.

  • Nicole Precel and Henrietta Cook
Former independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr was confirmed and sworn in as US health secretary.

RFK Jr becomes US health secretary after lone Republican votes ‘no’

A disgraced Australian celebrity chef has the ear of America’s new health secretary, who has promoted vaccine scepticism and wants fluoride out of the water supply.

  • Michael Koziol
CSL has seen lower vaccination rates in the US, which hit sales of its flu shots.

Falling vaccination rates in Trump’s America hit Australian giant

CSL’s profits have taken a hit from Americans’ reluctance to get vaccinated, sending its shares downward.

  • David Swan
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr testifies during the second hearing for his pending confirmation as secretary of Health and Human Services.

RFK Jr on defensive as a key confirmation vote hangs in the balance

A key Republican has joined Democrats to raise persistent concerns over the top health official nominee’s scepticism of routine childhood vaccinations.

  • Amanda Seitz and Stephen Groves
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Donald Trump’s choice to be Secretary of Health and Human Services, appears before the Senate Finance Committee for his confirmation hearing.

Four takeaways from Kennedy Jr’s first confirmation hearing

The ex-Democrat and abortion rights supporter nominated by a Republican president to be the nation’s leading health official presented some unusual dynamics.

  • Aaron Blake
Robert F. Kennedy Jr appears before the Senate Finance Committee on Wednesday for his confirmation hearing as health secretary.

‘Frankly, you frighten people’: RFK Jr grilled on vaccine, abortion U-turns

One of Donald Trump’s most controversial and vulnerable cabinet picks struggled to account for his shape-shifting views, vowing to serve at Trump’s pleasure.

  • Michael Koziol
US Ambassador to Australia Caroline Kennedy and Robert F Kennedy Jr.

‘Predator’: Caroline Kennedy warns senators of RFK Jr in searing letter

Ahead of her cousin’s confirmation to the Health Department, she alleges he led family members “down the path of drug addiction”.

  • Jacqueline Alemany, Dan Diamond and Liz Goodwin

The terrifying experience that made me a fierce supporter of vaccines

I don’t want any children, or any new parents, to go through what we did.

  • Jane Caro

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