30 October 2017 - Australia's Chief Medical Officer has stridently rejected claims a "budget" flu vaccine was partly responsible for this year's horror flu season, as the academic quoted called the reports "inaccurate".

Professor Brendan Murphy called "utterly false" accusations that a cheaper flu vaccine was to blame for hundreds flu-related deaths among the elderly this year.

Immunisation Coalition chair Professor Paul Van Buynder – quoted in the article – on Tuesday distanced himself from the claims, saying: "Media reports referring to 'cheap vaccines' don't accurately describe the situation of vaccine purchasing in Australia."

Read Sydney Morning Herald article