Four-month-old Zyven receives his routine polio immunisation at Tokorara Urban Health Clinic in Port Moresby. The clinic is one of dozens gearing up for a third vaccination campaign since a polio outbreak was declared last May.

Inside the fight to stamp out polio in one of Australia’s closest neighbours

As Australia’s childhood vaccination rates continue to fall,Papua New Guinea’s outbreak shows what can happen when herd immunity is lost.

  • Angus Thomson

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A passenger receives a shot of the Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine during a vaccination campaign at the Jakarta Kota train station in Jakarta,Indonesia,Wednesday,July 28,2021. (AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana)

Poliovirus strain detected in WA for the first time

Vaccine-derived poliovirus is rare but can occur in parts of the world where the oral polio vaccine is still used. This is the first time this strain has been detected in Australia.

  • Holly Thompson
Free RSV vaccinations will be made available to people aged over 75 years.

Older Australians to receive free RSV vaccinations

The federal government program that already offers free jabs during pregnancy will be expanded to include over-75s,amid concerns about grandparents catching the virus from children.

  • Mike Foley
Dr Annalyse Crane giving three-year-old Hamish Gray his first nasal spray flu vaccine at Family Medical Practice in Kirrawee,alongside his father,Ben.

How to keep your child safe from the flu – without a needle

Two-thirds of children are terrified of needles. Now,they don’t need one to be protected from the flu.

  • Angus Thomson
The proportion of fully vaccinated one-year-olds fell to 90.5 per cent in 2025,down more than four percentage points from five years ago,analysis released by the National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance (NCIRS) on Wednesday reveals.

These diseases are on the rise. Eighty thousand children are unprotected

Vaccination rates have fallen for a fifth year in a row,leaving children unprotected against resurgent diseases,including measles and whooping cough.

  • Angus Thomson
Measles is often characterised by a rash that spreads across the body.

Revealed:Why measles is circulating undetected in Sydney

The highly contagious virus has been detected in three people whose infections could not be traced to known exposure sites and who had not recently travelled overseas.

  • Kate Aubusson
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Tiffany Mather’s baby,Taylen,now 14 months,contracted measles on a flight home from Bali.

Taylen came back from Bali with a sniffle. Then things got much worse

NSW is on track to record its highest number of measles cases in a decade if transmission of the highly contagious disease is not contained.

  • Angus Thomson
Dr Marianne Gale was announced as Queensland’s next chief health officer in October last year.

Winter is coming,and Qld’s new top doctor has set her sights on shielding the state

Dr Marianne Gale knows a thing or two about preventable diseases. And now she’s on a mission to combat an illness that floored 95,000 Queenslanders last year alone.

  • Courtney Kruk
US Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr:Having an anti-vaxxer in charge of America’s health system has been one of the factors hitting CSL’s performance.

How RFK,China and leadership woes became a $4b storm for this Australian corporate giant

CSL’s share price has now halved in 18 months,shredding more than $70 billion of shareholder wealth after the latest writedowns and operational struggles.

  • Colin Kruger
Councils were blindsided with a $6000 annual fee to use the records system,plus a $2 charge for every jab administered.

Funding cut put Victoria’s vaccine database at risk

Pulled funding,new fees and a council revolt:internal documents reveal how Victoria’s childhood vaccination database was at risk of collapse.

  • Rachel Eddie