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The prevalence of long COVID is more than a hundred times greater than the definition of a rare disease – yet there are no specific health services or support.
There has already been a lot of flu this year but the flu season is unlikely to peak until late winter.
Shingles can cause severe and long-lasting complications, yet vaccination rates in Canada remain low despite the availability of a highly effective vaccine.
In recent decades, cases have risen sharply in Africa as urbanisation, travel and climate change have expanded mosquito habitats.
Outbreaks of bacterial meningitis at NZ and UK universities highlight a need for greater understanding and ongoing support for those who survive an infection.
As a child, Catharine Coleborne’s mother spent a year in bed with polio. Stories like hers reveal why we can’t afford to go backwards on vaccination.
COVID-19 hasn’t disappeared, but it’s no longer the health threat it was. Here’s what the latest wave means and who should get boosted.
Controlling the spread of many infections, including measles, depends on trust in public health, which is eroding.
Public health depends on long-term planning, and when that planning is interrupted, some programs never recover.
Before COVID, Australia reached its target of 95% of one-year-olds fully immunised. Now, lower coverage means more babies are at risk of whooping cough and measles.
The key players of our immune system aren’t well understood. Here’s how vaccines give our immune players a home advantage to fight infection.
This debilitating disease is particularly dangerous for babies, but can affect people at any age. Vaccination remains a key line of defence.
Despite overwhelming research showing that flu vaccines keep people out of hospital, fewer Canadians are getting vaccinated. Trust isn’t the only factor keeping people from getting the jab.
The UK has added chickenpox vaccination and a new 18-month appointment. Changes like these are signs the system is working, not breaking.
Doctor’s visits are already rushed. Adding extra steps means some children, especially those from low-income families, simply won’t get the vaccines they should.
As we prepare for the festive season, it’s easy to let COVID boosters fall off our to-do lists. But COVID is still circulating and new shots are available.
When you think about travel vaccines, you might think about ones for typhoid or cholera. But there are others you need to think about too.
The decision undoes a highly effective 34-year prevention strategy that has nearly eliminated early childhood hepatitis B infections in the U.S.
COVID-19 risk might be much lower than in past summers, but it’s not gone - making a pre-Christmas booster for some a good idea.
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Professor, Discipline of Paediatrics and Child Health, University of Sydney
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Professor, The Children's Hospital at Westmead Clinical School and Sydney Infectious Diseases Institute, University of Sydney
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Professor, School of Public Health, University of Sydney
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Professor of Infectious Diseases, Monash University
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Extraordinary Professor, Global Health, Stellenbosch University; South African Medical Research Council
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Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, University of Colorado Anschutz
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Professor of Infectious Diseases and Global Health, University of Sydney
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Hon Prof, Dept of Child & Adolescent Health, University of Sydney
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Paediatrician and Infectious Diseases Specialist; Clinical Researcher, University of Sydney
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Associate Principal Research Fellow, Burnet Institute
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Professor of Global Biosecurity, NHMRC L3 Research Fellow, Head, Biosecurity Program, Kirby Institute, UNSW
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Professor, School of Social Sciences, The University of Western Australia
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Honorary Research Fellow, Macquarie University
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Professor of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Adelaide University
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Associate Professor, Epidemiology, Deakin University