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Week commencing Thursday, 18 June | 2015 | Edition 784
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■ Parents urged to ignore anti-vaccination groups...
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WARWICK is one of 11 areas in Queensland which are failing to meet immunisation targets, leaving thousands of children exposed to potentially fatal diseases. The city and wider Darling Downs, including Clifton and Allora, have among the lowest vaccination rates in the state for under five-year-old kids, leading the country’s peak medical body to call for parents to take action. The Australian Medical Association said a staggering number of children in the region were not immunised, and blamed the anti-vaccination movement on the Darling Downs. The Sunshine and Gold Coast have also been identified as anti-vaccination black spots. AMA president Shaun Rudd said in some demographics, up to 15 per cent of children on the Darling Downs were left unprotected against whooping cough, measles, mumps and rubella. Overall, almost 8 per cent of one-year-olds and 7 per cent of five-year-olds were not fully inoculated in the region, he said. “We surmise that there are a number of parents in these areas who are opposed to vaccinating their children and that’s why immunising has slipped below target health levels,“ Dr Rudd said. “These vaccination objectors pose a great risk to the community.” The AMA identifies those people who oppose vaccination as the ‘worried well’. “There are parents who are concerned that inoculations may leave their children with developmental disorders such as autism, or spread the disease they’re supposed to prevent, but all evidence shows this is not the case.” Continued on Page 2
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