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Useful sites | Immunisation – protecting our children from disease

Department of Health and Aged Care, Australia

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

• About immunisation
  http://www.immunise.health.gov.au/internet/immunise/publishing.nsf/Content/about

• 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 Center)

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/general/im_types.asp

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 (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/hl_immunisation

Australian Broadcasting Corporation

• 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

• Feature on vaccinations (The Health Report, 18 May 1998)
  Describes an immunisation clinic for children who may have serious adverse reactions to vaccines. Also covers edible vaccines and a DNA vaccine against AIDS.
  http://www.abc.net.au/rn/talks/8.30/helthrpt/stories/s10953.htm

• 'Measles is more than spots and a fever': The importance of having children vaccinated (Ockham's Razor, 8 December 1996)
  Explains why childhood vaccinations are important.
  http://www.abc.net.au/rn/science/ockham/or081296.htm