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Medical Mums is in the news!! World Immunisation Week starts today. Are your child's vaccination's up to date?

Bogus vaccine claims to be tackled Dangerous myths about vaccines that leave almost 10 per cent of Queensland children unprotected against serious diseases are being tackled with a new video.

Interesting research on the motives of parents with anti-vaccination beliefs

Anti-vaxxer parents? They're just trying to fit in, UWA study says A University of WA study interviewed parents from Fremantle and Adelaide, and examined the social pressures surrounding vaccine skepticism and refusal.

It appears that Kynan Meara-Fletcher, who has been in Brisbane’s Lady Cilento Children’s Hospital for the past three weeks, will finally be going home. He has survived but has lost his hearing. It's another reminder of how dangerous this illness can be. Please vaccinate.

‘He is not going to hear me say, I love you’ A YOUNG boy may finally be going home from hospital after a long battle with the flu.

A tragic reminder of how dangerous can be. Our hearts go out to the family of this little girl.

Flu kills eight-year-old ‘princess’ THE father of an eight-year-old flu victim has told of his shock at losing his “beautiful princess”.

“Are developed countries moving away from vaccines? Yes, and one of the reasons is we don’t see the diseases any more. People think they aren’t relevant. They’re not seeing people die from these diseases..." says Dr Seth Berkley, chief executive of Gavi, the vaccine alliance.

The delusion of ‘organic mums’ Deadly diseases are returning to the West because “organic mums” refuse to vaccinate their children, the global immunisation chief has warned.

Legislation to be introduced into parliament today will reduce parents' fortnightly Family Tax Benefit Part A payments by $28 for each child that has not been vaccinated.

Laws on no jab, no pay heat up New laws will dock parents of $28 a fortnight from welfare payments if their kids aren't properly vaccinated

Thanks to news.com.au columnist Wendy Tuohy for sharing her experiences with anti-vax campaigners.

It’s time to get angry with anti-vaxxers LAST night my usually rational 13 year-old daughter needed to make a bed next to mine, just in case she got seriously ill in her sleep.

A combination vaccine that protects against four strains of potentially deadly disease has been approved for use in young infants in Australia.

Meningococcal vaccine approved for infants A vaccine that protects very young children against four strains of meningococcal has been approved by the TGA.

The Murdoch Childrens Research Institute says providers of antenatal care need to better supported in having conversations about with new mums.

New mums more likely to delay vaccinations FIRST-time mums are more likely to think childhood vaccines do more harm than good and are happier to rely on herd immunity to protect their child from infectious disease, compared to new mums with other children.

The inconvenient truth which the Australian Vaccination-sceptics Network and other anti-establishment radicals do not want to acknowledge is that baby Riley died of , for which he was not vaccinated.

Inside the anti-vax cult WITHIN 24 hours of their baby boy’s death, Catherine and Greg Hughes were confronted with the ugliness that drives the misinformed anti-vax warriors.

Are vaccines safe? How are vaccines tested in Australia? What kind of safety protocols are in place? Dr Julie Leask explains. Read more - Homepage - http://www.smh.com.au/ Face...

Associate Professor Julie Leask, internationally renowned public health expert specialising in immunisation controversies, talks about how an Institute of Medicine report she shared on twitter convinced one hesitant father to vaccinate his daughter.

The tweet that changed the mind of an anti-vaxxer It can more accurately map vaccination rates than socio-economic census data, research shows.

Our Medical Mums public awareness campaign is already targeting the inner city suburbs highlighted in this Courier Mail story.

What are these parents thinking? INNER-CITY Brisbane’s most well-to-do suburbs are home to some of the worst vaccination rates in the state and rank alongside anti-vax hot spots in northern NSW.

Parents stand to lose $28 a fortnight from family tax benefits if they refuse to vaccinate their children, as the Turnbull government ups its message. To read the government's media release, go to: http://ow.ly/IY8A30blecn

No Jab, No Welfare: Anti-vax families to lose benefits Parents stand to lose $28 a fortnight from family tax benefits if they refuse to vaccinate their children, as the Turnbull government ups its immunisation message.

Princess Mary has a message every anti-vaxxer needs to hear.

Princess Mary has a message every anti-vaxxer needs to hear. And the rest of us could benefit from hearing it again.

"There's that shift in perception of risk, of being more frightened of the vaccines than the impact of the diseases," says a senior research fellow from the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute. so be safe and get the facts on . Go to www.medicalmums.com.au/.

Address vaccination concerns to keep immunisation rates up Doctors and the medical community need to take vaccination hesitancy seriously, or risk seeing immunisation rates fall, researchers have found.

New vaccines are required every year due to changes and mutations of the virus, but in the last decade there has been an acceleration in the number of flu strains infecting humans.

The number of new flu viruses is increasing, and could lead to a pandemic How is it the flu has managed to stay around for so long, and why haven't we beaten it yet?

Vitimin K injections are given to babies to prevent severe bleeding into the brain, which can cause significant brain damage and death. For more information, see the Victorian Government's Better Health Channel: http://ow.ly/7b6530auEaJ

Five Week Old Fighting for Life After Parents Decline Routine Vitamin K Injection - Mum Central A five week old baby is fighting for its life after a brain haemorrhage following his parents decline of the routine Vitamin K injection.

Note that no vaccine yet exists for but scientist are working on one. For info, see http://ow.ly/dbCG30asQGv

The most common infectious disease in babies you may never have heard of CMV is the most common infectious cause of deformities in babies

Vaccination debate flares after tetanus diagnosis Health authorities say a seven-year-old girl diagnosed with tetanus had not been vaccinated.

Unvaccinated people in Australia might get some protection from communicable diseases through 'herd immunity', which occurs when a large proportion of the population is immune, but it can be a different story when they venture overseas. If you're travelling to developing countries, be sure to visit your GP first to check that your vaccinations are up-to-date.

Family in latest measles scare TWO members of the same family who recently returned from Bali to the Gold Coast have been diagnosed with measles.

Some helpful advice on pre-vaccination screening in this ABC News story.

Is there a test children can take before getting vaccinated? Pauline Hanson suggested there are tests available to see if children will have an adverse reaction to vaccinations — but are there?

Sowing doubt in the minds of parents about the safety of is "putting lives at risk", according to former federal health department secretary Dr Stephen Duckett.

Hanson is ‘ignorant, dangerous and wrong’ DOCTORS, health experts and politicians have lashed One ­Nation senator Pauline Hanson for peddling ignorant and dangerous advice to parents about vaccinating their children, after she urged them to “go out and do their own research”.

While the rate among girls aged 13 in Brisbane North (76%) was above the national average (72%) in 2015, more needs to be done to ensure they receive all three doses of the vaccine to fully protect them from .

Why our world class school vaccination system is still letting teens fall through the cracks It took her mother's cancer to help Ruby overcome her needle-phobia

Seventy-year-old Australians can now get the vaccine for free.

Shingles vaccine free for the elderly Seventy-year-old Australians can now get the shingles vaccine for free.

Between 2008 and 2011, there were more than 700 deaths in older Australians due to vaccine-preventable diseases.

The falling vaccination rate that we don't hear about When people think of vaccinations, many would picture an infant on the lap of a parent at their GP or perhaps an adult attending a travel clinic to get a jab before going on an overseas holiday.

Did you see the story about baby Riley on Seven's Sunday Night program? It is tragic that this beautiful little boy died from a preventable disease, but we congratulate his parents for their campaign to ensure all pregnant women in Australia can now access free .

"Riley’s death shouldn’t have happened" - watch now Last year Catherine and Greg Hughes suffered every parent's worst nightmare; the shocking death of their newborn son, Riley. Worse still was the knowledge that his death to Whooping Cough was entirely preventable.

A mother has shared a distressing video of her newborn daughter struggling to breathe in an effort to raise awareness about and .

For the sake of tiny baby Heidi, please vaccinate your children. This is how important it is.

The national childhood rate for 1-year-olds has reached 93%, while the rate for 2-year-olds is 90.7% and 5-year-olds is at 92.92%, according to the latest government figures available here: http://ow.ly/eNP8302MAER. Meanwhile data on conscientious objection to show that rates dropped significantly in lead up to to the introduction laws in January this year. This was the first time that rates had fallen since records began: http://ow.ly/1QYz302MALr

Government labels 'no jab, no pay' policy a success The Federal Government is heralding its no jab, no pay policy as having led to an extra 5,700 children being vaccinated.

The author of this article argues that if mothers are vaccinated while pregnant, the best protection against whooping cough for newborns is not necessarily social isolation. Instead they should ensure visitors postpone their visit if they are sick and always practice good hand-washing.

Comment: 'No Vax, No Visit' not necessary - baby is probably already protected against whooping... Samantha Carlson, University of Sydney; Kerrie Wiley, University of Sydney, and Peter Bruce McIntyre, University of Sydney

A Canadian study has found the main factor behind the anxiety a child experiences when being vaccinated is how frightened their parents appear to them.

Fear of needles depends on parent behaviour: study Past experience determines how anxious pre-schoolers will be about getting vaccinations but it’s not about past pain during immunization. The biggest determinant was their parent’s or caregiver’s behaviour, according to a recent study. More than half of children afraid In Canada, children routinely…