There is another form of influenza vaccine known as thelive attenuated intranasal vaccine(LAIV). These have been in use overseas since 2003, but have not yet been licensed in Australia.LAIV are given by squirting the vaccine into the nose (as a nasal spray), so injection is not required. ...
"Over the last two and a half years, there has been very little circulating influenza ... Further, the uptake for influenza vaccine in Australia over this period has been lower than usual." "This means that the Australian population has had comparatively little exposure to influenza... (and...
In recent years, Australia has vaccinated increasing numbers of its citizens against seasonal influenza via both government and private vaccine programs, largely between March and July. In 2020, this culminated in the distribution of 18 million doses of influenza vaccine. 2021 has been the second ...
Yes. Medicare Part B covers one flu vaccine per season, from November through April. Is the flu season going to be bad this year? Although it's impossible to predict, some experts have pointed to Australia, where the flu season peaks from June to August, and noted its flu season was ...
Australian researchers who have developed a more effective flu vaccine have said that it will undergo clinical trials in the United States. According to team leader Nikolai Petrovsky from Flinders University in South Australia the vaccine was developed by an artificial intelligence (AI) program called ...
Getting the flu vaccine this year is important, experts at the World Health Organization said during a news briefing in Geneva on Tuesday. It appears that the circulation of flu in the Southern Hemisphere – which includes Australia, New Zealand, Argentina, Chile, South Africa and Zimbabwe –...
Related article What Australia's bad flu season means for Europe, North America “When H3N2 dominates, it generally is a bad actor from the beginning and usually foreshadows a bad year,” Fauci said. “Superimpose upon that the fact that it is likely that the vaccine is not going to be...
Other children in South Australia and the Northern Territory not covered under national programs can still access the vaccine from their GP at a small cost. Why should I vaccinate my child? Young children catch and spread the flu more than any other age group. Thousands of children are hospita...
Another factor that has made predicting which H3N2 virus to target in the vaccine uniquely difficult for 2022 is the lack of data on which viruses were dominant in the preceding flu seasons, both in Australia and on the other side of the Equator. Withtravel restrictionseasing towards the end ...
But the flu vaccine is usually only around 15% effective, so people will be looking for a belt-and-braces approach to avoid getting infected. The flu virus is mainly spread by droplets expelled from the mouths and noses of infected people when they cough, sneeze or talk. These droplets ...