Your stories
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1:3490 second animated video on the facts of childhood immunisation -
1:53Before your child receives a vaccine, it must meet the highest possible safety standards. All ingredients in vaccines are fully tested before they can be used, and after being registered, the safety of the vaccines is constantly monitored.
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3:42Professor Ian Frazer AC is an Immunologist and co-creator of one of the world’s first cancer preventing vaccines (HPV vaccine). Hear Professor Frazer explain the facts about how immunisation saves lives.
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6:12Renay’s son Jesse passed away following complications due to chickenpox at 9 years of age.
Chickenpox is a serious disease because it can cause a number of complications, including skin rash, pneumonia, blood poisoning due to a secondary infection with bacteria and sometimes death.
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6:45David and Toni McCaffery lost their four week old daughter Dana to whooping cough, a vaccine- preventable disease in 2009. They lived in an area that had low immunisation rates.