{"id":13288,"date":"2017-10-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-29T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/doctors-blame-cheap-vaccine-for-worst-aussie-flu-season-on-record\/"},"modified":"2017-10-29T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-10-29T00:00:00","slug":"doctors-blame-cheap-vaccine-for-worst-aussie-flu-season-on-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/doctors-blame-cheap-vaccine-for-worst-aussie-flu-season-on-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Doctors Blame Cheap Vaccine For Worst Aussie Flu Season On Record"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>A cheap vaccine has been blamed on the worst Australian flu season on record.<\/h3>\n<h3>217,000 Aussies had confirmed cases of the flu this year, dwarfing the previous record of just over 100,000 in 2015, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heraldsun.com.au\/lifestyle\/health\/doctors-blame-our-discount-flu-vaccine-for-record-flu-season\/news-story\/1fbca150033ba9682fc7a4efe468e59d?utm_content=SocialFlow&amp;utm_campaign=EditorialSF&amp;utm_source=HeraldSun&amp;utm_medium=Twitter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">News Ltd<\/a>.<\/h3>\n<p>The paper is now reporting that doctors are blaming the \u2018$6 budget version\u2019 of the flu vaccine used this year.<\/p>\n<p>Immunisation Coalition chair Professor Paul Van Buynder said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><h3>\u201cPaying for a vaccine that doesn\u2019t work is a false economy, if you can stop tens of thousands of people getting sick or hospitalisation the extra expense is worth undertaking.<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cThis was a disaster year and if we don\u2019t get policy change as a result heaven help me.\u201d<\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The flu shot was too weak to stop this year&#39;s record outbreak <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bc7vidNTfT\">https:\/\/t.co\/bc7vidNTfT<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qz5mJSj99w\">pic.twitter.com\/qz5mJSj99w<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Herald Sun (@theheraldsun) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/theheraldsun\/status\/924729566303793152?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 29, 2017<\/a><\/blockquote>&#13;\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A cheap vaccine has been blamed on the worst Australian flu season on record. 217,000 Aussies had confirmed cases of the flu this year, dwarfing the previous record of just over 100,000 in 2015, according to News Ltd. The paper is now reporting that doctors are blaming the \u2018$6 budget version\u2019 of the flu vaccine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[144],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-13288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Doctors Blame Cheap Vaccine For Worst Aussie Flu Season On Record - FIVEAA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/doctors-blame-cheap-vaccine-for-worst-aussie-flu-season-on-record\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Doctors Blame Cheap Vaccine For Worst Aussie Flu Season On Record\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A cheap vaccine has been blamed on the worst Australian flu season on record. 217,000 Aussies had confirmed cases of the flu this year, dwarfing the previous record of just over 100,000 in 2015, according to News Ltd. 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