WHO calls for renewed efforts in global vaccination targets for 2015

Monday, April 27th 2015 - 21:57 UTC

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Progress towards global vaccination targets for 2015 is far off track with 1 in 5 children still missing out on routine life-saving immunizations that could avert 1.5 million deaths each year from preventable diseases. In the lead-up to World Immunization Week 2015 (24 -30 April), the World Health Organization (WHO) is calling for renewed efforts to get progress back on course. Read full article

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Thankfully our government has just ended the farcical exemption due to religious convictions after it was found that no single religion in Australia objects to vaccinations.

However if people still choose not to vaccinate then that is their choice. The government has chosen to remove tax benefits and breaks from those people.

A$15,ooo lost per year because you believe lies written on the internet over medical proof..... seems fair.

It's all about choice after all.
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Troy Tempest
Hear, hear !!
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Yeah you watch our vaccination rates jump back to their previous levels. A$15,000 per year over 18 years is worth A$300,000 (US$240,000) - now admittedly not everyone will be eligible for that, but let's see if people's beliefs and Google searches are potentially worth A$300,000.

Sometimes the problem with living in a safe and rich developed nation is that people forget what it is like not to. They forget what it was once like only a generation or two earlier.

When I was a child, my mother had a friend who had pockmarks on her face. I'd never seen this before and she told me it was from a disease that was around when she was a little girl but didn't exist any longer. I didn't understand the implications fully at that age.

But now that I think about it. Few people I know who are my age or younger will even know what smallpox scars actually look like. I was never immunised against smallpox but you still see that vaccination scar on many arms of most people who emigrated here.

In about 10 years we will look back and see this current kerfuffle over vaccination as silly. There will be fewer incidences of disease.
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