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Childhood vaccination rates have been falling across the country since the Covid pandemic, with some pockets seeing steep declines.
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Alarm is being raised as routine vaccination rates fall in the pandemic’s wake, posing a threat to us all | Rates of undervaccinated babies vary across the nation.
Now he’s health secretary, not a gadfly, as unvaxxed children are hospitalised.
The immunity protection program for pregnant women will start from February 3 and is aimed at protecting newborns from the life-threatening virus until they are six months old.
Australian researchers have unlocked a crucial key to future cancer vaccines in a world-first discovery set to fast-track RNA-based therapeutics.
Australia’s biggest health company has revealed its flu shot is 15pc more effective than conventional ones. But don’t expect the government to pay for it.
A new type of cell-based influenza vaccine is available this winter that promises to be much more effective than protein-based flu jabs grown in eggs.
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