You no longer have to go to your GP to get your flu shot or catch up on vaccinations you missed earlier in life or have waning immunity to. But they're unlikely to be free.
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Rwanda's government has taken concerted, deliberate steps over the past 25 years to build a strong health system.
We need to investigate the overall health effects of vaccines.
Anti-vaccine info online might have foreign roots and political aims.
Two deadly viruses are ravaging the DRC. Why are we only hearing about one of them?
In some countries, parents are fined if they don't vaccinate their child or they have to go on a course before being granted an exemption to vaccinate. Are any of these options right for Australia?
A challenge in eradicating polio comes from a version of the vaccine itself, which relies on live but attenuated virus. Rationally designing a new vaccine could help get rid of polio once and for all.
Studies have shown that the reasons for anti-vaccine sentiment run deep, and scientific facts don't often matter. A new study drills deeper into reasons for resistance and possible ways to counteract them.
When a certain percentage of a population has been vaccinated, it prevents an infectious disease from spreading. But that threshold depends on the disease.
When it comes to flu, information can range from confusion about what it actually is, to speculation about how it's transmitted.
Deliberately infecting people with a disease-causing agent as part of carefully considered medical research can be ethically acceptable or even necessary.
Babies are normally vaccinated against measles at 12 months old. But doctors are now suggesting having the shot as early as six months might be worthwhile for youngsters traveling overseas.
The flu vaccine takes about two weeks to start working and only protects against influenza, so you can still get sick from other viruses after your flu shot.
The 2018-2019 flu season was less deadly than the last. But the pattern of infection was unusual, thanks to the various strains circulating and the way flu shots work over time.
Outbreaks often affect the same areas because, once released, the bacteria continues to live as spores in the soil.
An economics risk analysis offers some insight into the modern anti-vaxx movement.
Rift Valley Fever infects millions of humans and livestock in Africa and Arabia. To fight it, scientists are developing a first of its kind vaccine that can be used on humans and animals.
Measles cases in the US have reached their highest in 25 years. A bioethicist argues why parents opposed to vaccination are not just wrong about the science, but about the morals.
Given the high burden of malaria in sub-Saharan Africa, a partially effective vaccine is considered better than none.
The Ebola virus claimed 11,000 lives in 2014. Today, scientists may have cured the disease in guinea pigs by using antibodies.
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Professor, Discipline of Paediatrics and Child Health, University of Sydney
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Virologist, University of Glasgow
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Honorary Research Fellow, Macquarie University
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Postdoctoral Researcher in Social Sciences, University of Oxford
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Associate Professor, Discipline of Childhood and Adolescent Health, University of Sydney
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Peter C. Doherty is a Friend of The Conversation.
Laureate Professor, The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity
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Senior lecturer in Pharmacology, University of Adelaide
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Professor, University of Sydney
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Nic Geard is a Friend of The Conversation.
Senior Lecturer, School of Computing and Information Systems, University of Melbourne; Senior Research Fellow, Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, University of Melbourne
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Honorary Fellow at Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, University of Melbourne
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Professor of Virology, Imperial College London
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Public Health Physician
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Senior Lecturer, University of Western Australia
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Professor of Global Biosecurity, NHMRC Principal Research Fellow, Head, Biosecurity Program, UNSW
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Lecturer, Lancaster University
