Calls for more flu shots for children following worst spread in 5 years

By Clare Sibthorpe
Updated October 25 2015 - 10:08am, first published October 13 2015 - 9:30pm
Professor David Salisbury is visiting Australia to discuss changes to influenza policy after successfully leading the initiative to have all UK children vaccinated. Photo: Jay Cronan
Professor David Salisbury is visiting Australia to discuss changes to influenza policy after successfully leading the initiative to have all UK children vaccinated. Photo: Jay Cronan

Australia's recent flu season was the worst in five years and saw a rising rate of children infected. Despite the bug causing an average of 18,000 hospitalisations and 3,000 deaths a year nationally, just 42 per cent of people under the age of 65 at risk of infection are vaccinated annually.

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