Since the COVID-19 pandemic, vaccine rates have been dropping.
- Associate Professor in Public Health, University of Sydney
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?
If your immunisation record is incomplete, you might repeat a vaccination unnecessarily, or miss out on government support, child care, or work. So it pays to check.
Overall rates of vaccine objection have remained largely unchanged since 2001.
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