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Useful sites | Immunisation – protecting our children from disease

Department of Health and Aging, Australia

• The Australian Immunisation Handbook 9th Edition, 2008
  http://www.immunise.health.gov.au/internet/immunise/publishing.nsf/Content/Handbook-home

• Frequently asked questions about immunisation
  http://immunise.health.gov.au/internet/immunise/publishing.nsf/Content/faq

• Immunisation: Myths and realities
  http://immunise.health.gov.au/internet/immunise/publishing.nsf/Content/uci-myths-guideprov

Vaccines (Kimball Biology Pages, USA)

Includes information on different types of vaccines, a table of some of the most widely used vaccines, some problems of vaccine development and DNA vaccines.
http://users.rcn.com/jkimball.ma.ultranet/BiologyPages/V/Vaccines.html

Types of vaccines (Web Health Centre)

Describes different types of vaccines including active immunization using live vaccines, inactivated vaccines, toxoids, cellular fractions as well as passive immunisation using immunoglobulins and antisera.
http://www.webhealthcentre.com/HealthyLiving/immunisation_types.aspx

Vaccines – how and why? (Access Excellence, USA)

Includes the history of vaccination, how vaccines work and how they are made.
http://www.accessexcellence.org/AE/AEC/CC/vaccines_how_why.html

Immunisation...all about (Better Health Channel, Australia)

Many illnesses, particularly those which affect children, can be prevented by immunisations.
http://www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au/bhcv2/bhcarticles.nsf/pages/Immunisation_theme_page?open

Australian Broadcasting Corporation

• Immunisation Fact File (ABC Health and Wellbeing)
  Provides comprehensive information regarding immunisation and vaccinations.
  http://www.abc.net.au/health/library/stories/2003/05/22/1918384.htm

• Polio eradication (Radio National Health Report, 7 November 2011)
  An interview with Dr Andrew Leigh discussing the goal of eradicating polio.
  http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/healthreport/polio-eradication/3629516

• One step closer to universal malaria vaccine (Breakfast, 15 July 2011)
  Reports on work of Australian scientists towards a vaccine for malaria.
  http://www.abc.net.au/rn/breakfast/stories/2011/3269985.htm

• Boys and the cervical cancer vaccine (ABC Health and Wellbeing, 16 June 2011)
  Discusses the potential benefits to boys receiving the cervical cancer vaccine.
  http://www.abc.net.au/health/thepulse/stories/2011/06/16/3218788.htm

• Universal flu vaccine (Catalyst, 2 July 2009)
  Covers the story of the outbreak of swine flu, and efforts to develop an all-encompassing influenza vaccine.
  http://www.abc.net.au/catalyst/stories/2613604.htm

• Vaccines may be diluted 100-fold (News in Science, 3 February 2006)
  Reports that vaccines can be diluted, and give protection against disease, if an immune system booster is used.
  http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/health/HealthRepublish_1561441.htm
• Cervical cancer vaccine raises questions (News in Science, 26 October 2005)
  Asks some questions about the cervical cancer vaccine.
  http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/health/HealthRepublish_1490302.htm

• Vaccination (Ockham's Razor, 27 August 2000)
  Looks at the effectiveness, safety and future of vaccines.
  http://www.abc.net.au/rn/science/ockham/stories/s168179.htm