Posted by Michael Wonder on 10 Jul 2019
Vaccine crisis leaves Australia’s immunisation record in tatters
9 July 2019 - Thousands of Australians are dying from the flu and meningococcal because lifesaving vaccines are not being approved, leaving immunisation at a new world low.
Australia’s leading infectious diseases expert, Professor Robert Booy, said lives were being lost while the Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee, which decides which vaccines can be added to the National Immunisation Program, refused to bend.
Crucial vaccines — including against the flu and meningococcal B — were not being approved, leaving families to pick up the bill for jabs that should be federally funded.
