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AI-powered chatbots can be used in health-care education to help providers practice encounters with patients who have vaccine questions.
Vaccination is key to protecting against measles – but the question of when exactly is best to give the vaccine is not black and white.
The US withdrew from treaty negotiations on President Trump’s first day in office.
Robert F Kennedy Jr recently said the MMR vaccine contains fetal debris and DNA fragments. This is where these claims come from, and why there’s no need to worry.
Even if we feel we have some understanding of science, few of us have the time or the capacity to verify every claim made by every so called ‘expert’.
Rates of the bacterial infection have gone up by 500% since last year, with babies and young children most at risk.
Vaccines have saved more than 154 million lives worldwide over the past 50 years. World Immunization Week is a timely reminder of important ongoing work on vaccines in Canada.
Avian influenza infections in the US have been rising over the past year, but there’s no evidence so far that people can infect each other with this strain of the virus.
It’s safe to get a COVID vaccine and a flu shot at the same time. Here’s what else you need to know.
It’s difficult to predict what this year’s flu season is going to be like. But it’s a good time to start thinking about vaccination.
LP.8.1, a descendant of Omicron, is driving a growing proportion of COVID infections in Australia and elsewhere.
Complications from measles infection are surprisingly common.
Measles is on the rise globally. We need to step up vaccination rates.
A medical epidemiologist explains who should consider getting a booster and whether you might need to check your antibody levels.
Anti-vaccination sentiment can be seen as part of a larger societal trend towards individualism.
Reading a pamphlet in the doctor’s office about which vaccines to get may help nudge older adults to get vaccinated.
It’s more than likely we’ll face another pandemic in the future. So what can we learn from COVID?
Hospitalisations and deaths attributed to COVID have dropped significantly since a peak in 2022. But a new variant could still reverse the trend quickly.
Australia’s child vaccination rates used to be among the best in the world. But after peaking in 2020, they’re falling.
Top contributors
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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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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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Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, University of Colorado Anschutz
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Paediatrician and Infectious Diseases Specialist; Clinical Researcher, University of Sydney
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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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Associate Principal Research Fellow, Burnet Institute
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Professor of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Adelaide University
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Honorary Research Fellow, Macquarie University
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Professor of Paediatrics and vaccinologist, Royal Childrens Hospital, University of Melbourne and Murdoch Childrens Research Institute (MCRI); Associate Dean International, University of Melbourne, Murdoch Children's Research Institute