Dr. Suzanne Davey prepares an immunisation needle at the Kambah Village Medical Practice. Photo: Graham Tidy
The importance of immunisation from preventable diseases is still a relevant community message amid concerns about patchy immunisation rates and continued vaccination rates below 95 per cent, Australia’s leading medical association has warned.
Kambah Medical Practice GP Suzanne Davey said vaccinating against illness and disease was the easiest way GPs could protect adults, children, the elderly and “immuno-compromised” people from vaccine-preventable infectious disease.
“The risk is far higher if you contract the disease of having a serious complication than from immunisations,” she said.
“Living in a community means sharing germs so vaccination protects you from infectious disease.”