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Measles is an extremely contagious disease but, thanks to immunisation, is now rare in Australia.
Many children have missed a measles vaccine dose since the start of the COVID pandemic.
The pandemic has disrupted national immunisation programmes. As a result, the African continent is seeing more outbreaks of vaccine preventable diseases.
Authorities have been warned about five virus families that could cause future pandemics. Here are snapshots of the diseases each can cause and why we should be worried.
The risk of serious disease outbreaks among NZ children is now very real. Some childhood immunisation rates have dropped from about 80% in early 2020 to 67% by June 2022, and as low as 45% for Māori.
The latest report from the WHO and Unicef found cases have increased nearly 80% worldwide.
Public health experts know that schools are likely sites for the spread of disease, and laws tying school attendance to vaccination go back to the 1800s.
A growing body of research shows that nutrition, sleep, exercise and a host of other lifestyle choices can help optimize the immune system. But they are no substitute for life-saving vaccines.
A critical care doctor brings a frontlines perspective to the frustration of dealing firsthand with vaccine hesitancy and discusses the limitations of science and medicine.
America’s founders accepted the reality of human selfishness. But, they also said people were capable of thinking for the good of the whole, which is necessary for a free society.
The effects of Ontario’s compulsory school immunization show there are advantages and disadvantages of requiring vaccination.
Vaccine manufacturing doesn’t come cheap. It depends heavily on support from developed countries. It also requires much more than relaxing intellectual property rights and a desire for vaccine equity.
Age and education level are the main factors associated with vaccine hesitancy. While this affects Māori and Pacific communities, basic access to health care and information is more important.
From maternity wards to primary care, Canadian researchers are looking to find the positive motivations of vaccine hesitant people, whether they are new parents or other adults.
Roald Dahl’s daughter Olivia died of measles aged seven.
We’ve gone from a novel virus to several COVID-19 vaccines in less than a year. Here’s what we’ve learned from earlier vaccines to allow this to happen.
US monuments and memorials have overlooked frontline workers and people of color affected by past epidemics. Will we repeat history?
After recent suspected COVID-19 cases and with repatriation flights postponed, Samoa takes no chances.
As ready as you are to be done with COVID-19, it’s not going anywhere soon. A historian of disease describes how once a pathogen emerges, it’s usually here to stay.
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Professor, Discipline of Paediatrics and Child Health, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor of Biology, Penn State
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Associate Professor, Computing & Information Systems; Director, Melbourne Data Analytics Platform, The University of Melbourne
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Professor in Infectious Diseases Epidemiology, Monash University
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Director of the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Health Protection Research Unit in Emerging and Zoonotic Infections, and Professor of Neurology, University of Liverpool
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Associate Professor, University of Oxford
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Associate Professor, Discipline of Childhood and Adolescent Health, University of Sydney
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Assistant Professor of Philosophy & Disability Studies, Georgetown University
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Professor of Global Health, Danish Institute for Advanced Study, University of Southern Denmark
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Paediatrician, National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance; Clinical Lecturer, Children's Hospital Westmead Clinical School, University of Sydney
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Senior research fellow, The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity
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Emeritus Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor, The University of Melbourne
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Honorary Professor Faculty of Health and Medical Science, Univeristy of Sydney; Senior Researcher Sydney Institue for Infectious Disease, University of Sydney., University of Sydney
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Professor of Public Health, The University of Melbourne
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Hon Prof, Dept of Child & Adolescent Health, University of Sydney
