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How Australia's measles vaccine coverage compares to the US
Manage episode 479476574 series 5409
To avoid measles outbreaks, it's recommended 95 per cent of the population is vaccinated against the highly infectious disease.
But it can be difficult to reach and maintain such a high number, and since the COVID-19 pandemic rates have been falling.
Guest/s
- Professor Peter McIntyre, former director of National Centre of Immunisation Research and Surveillance for Vaccine Preventable Diseases now at the University of Otago
References
1489 episodes
Manage episode 479476574 series 5409
To avoid measles outbreaks, it's recommended 95 per cent of the population is vaccinated against the highly infectious disease.
But it can be difficult to reach and maintain such a high number, and since the COVID-19 pandemic rates have been falling.
Guest/s
- Professor Peter McIntyre, former director of National Centre of Immunisation Research and Surveillance for Vaccine Preventable Diseases now at the University of Otago
References
1489 episodes
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