Vaccines and Immunity

Recently, media personality Abbie Chatfield posted on TikTok explaining she was starting a vaccine to help prevent UTIs. So who is the vaccine for and how is it accessed? 

A female police officer was pregnant when she was assaulted by anti-vaccine protester and failed South Australian Senate candidate Raina Cruise in Adelaide's CBD, a court has heard.

Hundreds of former and current police officers and staff members have launched a class action lawsuit against the state government and the Queensland Police Service, over its COVID-19 vaccine mandates.

Year 11 students at a Ballarat school have received a meningococcal vaccine that can cost up to $400 thanks to the work of a shattered mum whose daughter died in 2017. 

New COVID-19 strains are emerging and with it the need for updated vaccines to protect people from the virus. So how do researchers quickly update shots to keep up with mutations?

WA's Town of Port Hedland council has passed a motion urging state and federal governments to suspend COVID-19 vaccines, prompting the Premier to say they should "stick to their knitting" and stop spreading unverified claims.

MSF Head of Programs Simon Eccleshall has expressed concern about the 'indiscriminate nature of attack' in Lebanon and says it mirrors the conflict in Gaza. 

A new COVID variant is spreading rapidly and could soon become the dominant variant around the globe. 

RSV is a highly infectious virus that is the most common cause of respiratory infections in children. A free vaccine could soon be available to help prevent it. 

The World Health Organization says it has cleared Bavarian Nordic's mpox vaccine, the first such vaccine to be approved by the agency for containing the spread of the disease in badly hit African countries.

South Australia has reported a six year high in whooping cough cases as the illness spikes across the country.

UN officials say more than half of the 640,000 Gaza children who need to be immunised against polio have received the oral vaccine in the first two stages of the campaign.

Two new COVID-19 vaccines targeting the JN.1 variant are under review by the TGA. We asked experts about the new vaccines and what we can expect if they're approved.

A Senate inquiry looking into why more Australians have died in the past four years than expected has found COVID-19 continues to have a crushing impact on local health systems.

Free flu vaccine has been available to Queenslanders for the past two years but the state’s influenza cases are more than double the five-yearly average.

United Nations agencies are appealing for urgent vaccinations of every baby, with children under five particularly at risk.

Infectious disease experts say pregnant women should get vaccinated urgently as whooping cough numbers reach a nine-year high. 

Polio, once eradicated thanks to almost all children in Gaza being vaccinated, has been detected again in the occupied territory.

The World Health Organization once again declares mpox a public health emergency after rolling back an emergency declaration for the virus in mid-2023.

The latest outbreak of mpox is different to the one that spread around the world in 2022 — and has experts on high alert