CANBERRA, May 29 (Xinhua) -- Influenza vaccines have been made free for all South Australians in a bid to ease the growing pressure on the health system. Peter Malinauskas, the premier of South Australia (SA), on Sunday announced that flu vaccines would be made free until June 30 effecti...
"What we don't normally see is quite so many kids in hospital but a lot of this is due to high numbers. There'll be deaths for sure, and no doubt increased pressure on hospitals." Up until May 8 there had been 10,599 confirmed influenza cases in Australia compared to fewer than 1,...
We also knowaccessing medical servicescan be difficult for some people, such as those living in rural areas or experiencing financial hardship. Filling the gaps In Australia, GPs offer flu vaccines for all ages, while flu vaccination is also available at pharmacies, generally from age 5 and up....
and therefore has a better chance of fighting it off. The flu vaccines that are given to people in Australia are made by killing (known as inactivating) a small amount of flu virus, which is
All the influenza vaccines used in Australia are inactivated virus vaccines, meaning the virus contained in the vaccine doesn't replicate, so you can't get the flu from the vaccination. In addition to the flu vaccines under the National Immunization Program, a new vaccine calledFlucelvax Quad(Se...
A spokeswoman for Sanofi Pasteur, a division ofSanofithat produces about 40 percent of the influenza vaccines distributed worldwide, cautioned the research only analyzed Australia. These findings may not reflect what will happen in the U.S., she said, because there is no guarantee the same stra...
In the meantime, students should take advantage of the resources offered to them on campus. The Student Health Center has been offering free vaccines for students to help them prevent the flu, something that other CSU campuses don’t normally offer. The health center also offers “flu kits” ...
Global estimates have found that up to 105,000 influenza-associated deaths occur annually among children aged under five. In Australia, the highest rates of laboratory-confirmed influenza and influenza hospitalisation from 2006 to 2015 were in this age group. ...
The deputy chair of the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation spoke to the Royal Society of Medicine about the upcoming influenza season and the new bivalent covid-19 vaccine We are potentially going to have a very big influenza outbreak this winter because we haven't got much ...
“Despite currently available vaccines, flu remains a very major global health problem,” Petrovsky said. “It takes decades to develop a new human vaccine and this is extremely hard to achieve under Australian funding models which tend to be short term." ...