The authors of Vaccine myopia: Adult vaccination also needs attention estimate that there are over 4 million undervaccinated Australians each year; that is, people who are eligible to receive free vaccine(s) under the National Immunisation Program (NIP) but do not receive them. "Of these, the children of parents with ideological objections to vaccination are a small subset; the vast majority are adults."
MNCLHD
Wednesday, April 26, 2017
Vaccine myopia for adults
A recent article in the Medical Journal of Australia highlights the vast numbers of undervaccinated adults in Australia - a fact that has largely been ignored in the arguments about childhood vaccinations.
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