It’s time to get your annual influenza vaccination.

It’s time to get protected from this year’s influenza strains, and get your annual influenza vaccination. Going by the northern hemisphere’s season we could be in for a bad one, with H1N1 leading to severe disease and deaths in otherwise healthy adults and pregnant women. Influenza vaccines are available free…

India is polio free for 3 years

Amazing news from India this week. It has been 3 years since their last case of wild polio. The eradication of this disease is in sight. This is a truly amazing thing given that as recently as 1988, before the global campaign to eradicate polio via vaccination, about 1000 kids…

17 year old unvaccinated girl dies of measles

We are sad to report that a previously healthy, but unvaccinated 17 year old has died of measles in the Netherlands. The Netherlands has been suffering a measles outbreak in recent months, largely amongst a religious sect that refuse vaccination. During the last outbreak amongst the same population, three people…

Measles alert in the Northern Rivers

Cases of measles have been reported in the Northern Rivers. The low immunisation rates in the region mean we are all at risk of epidemics of this contagious disease. Note; Only 1 of the 69 cases of measles identified this year in Australia has been fully vaccinated, all other cases were…