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The chance of living one more year is up to 44% more likely thanks to the past 50 years of vaccines, according to new research. But global drops in vaccine coverage pose a risk. 
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With holiday season underway, you may be realizing that you forgot to get your Covid-19 and flu vaccines, and now you’ll be sitting across the table from your elderly relatives.
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Tracey Bettridge was driving her kids to school one morning before work when she felt a stabbing pain shoot across her neck. Then, her body started to go numb.
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Myocarditis following COVID-19 vaccination is rare, and the risk is much smaller than the risks of cardiac injury linked to COVID-19 itself.
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For 41 years, Dr Karl Kruszelnicki has been spruiking science on the ABC, trying to counter the growth of misinformation and even saving a listener's life.
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With nearly a million children being vaccinated in London, how worried should we be?
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New ad urges us to 'take on winter' by getting COVID and flu vaccines. But it misses some key things
The government’s new $11 million winter COVID and flu vaccine ad campaign gets some things right, but it doesn’t connect on an emotional level or address concerns about common side effects.
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The long, maddening wait reveals much about the world’s vaccine priorities.
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The World Health Organization and the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund warned of an increased risk of measles spread, with worldwide cases up nearly 80% so far in 2022 compared with 2021.
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Rates are stalling in most low-income countries well short of the W.H.O.’s goal to immunize 70 percent of people in every nation. Some public health experts believe the momentum is gone forever.
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With so much attention on COVID-19 vaccinations over the past year, GPs are urging people to check they're vaccinated against other diseases, including one highly contagious virus that can lay dormant in people's bodies for life.
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New modelling also reveals Australia’s chronic vaccine delays may have resulted in a life-saving fluke.
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Millions of high-risk older Australians aren’t getting recommended vaccinations against COVID, the flu, pneumococcal disease and shingles.
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Some studies have shown that vaccinated individuals appear less likely than the unvaccinated to develop dementia, although scientists aren’t sure why.
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Frontline Melbourne clinicians say many of the elderly COVID patients they are now treating were vaccinated, but haven’t had a booster shot recently.
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An Ohio measles outbreak among unvaccinated children comes at a time of heightened concern about the public health consequences of anti-vaccine sentiment.
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Vaccine against all strains of virus hailed as major step in protecting against potentially devastating flu pandemic
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Australia currently has its first cases of childhood respiratory diphtheria since 1992. So why are we seeing diphtheria now? And what role does travel play in its spread?
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If you’re over 65, you’ll likely get an immune-boosting flu shot. And there are options for those who don’t want a vaccine made with eggs – though the standard shots are safe for those with allergies.
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Unvaccinated people accounted for the overwhelming majority of deaths in the United States throughout much of the coronavirus pandemic. But that has changed in recent months, according to a Washington Post analysis of state and federal data.
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Studies show if medical staff talk about potential side effects in negative terms, the patient’s experience can worsen. We need to consider this ‘nocebo’ effect when talking about COVID vaccinations.
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Far from a mild disease, the flu can cause serious illness and death, particularly among children and older age groups. The flu vaccine isn’t perfect, but it’s the best way to protect yourself.
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In 1796, Dr Edward Jenner delivered the world's first inoculation to his gardener's eight-year-old son who was suffering from the deadly smallpox virus, but his scientific breakthrough also sprouted the first seeds of an anti-vaccination movement.
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