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How Australia's measles vaccine coverage compares to the US
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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.
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- Professor Peter McIntyre, former director of National Centre of Immunisation Research and Surveillance for Vaccine Preventable Diseases now at the University of Otago
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