{"id":27485,"date":"2018-11-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-13T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/aussies-at-risk-in-overseas-immunisation-crisis-says-professor\/"},"modified":"2018-11-13T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-11-13T00:00:00","slug":"aussies-at-risk-in-overseas-immunisation-crisis-says-professor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/show\/aussies-at-risk-in-overseas-immunisation-crisis-says-professor\/","title":{"rendered":"Aussies At Risk In Overseas Immunisation Crisis, Says Professor"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Even Australians who are fully immunised could be in danger as vaccination rates in Indonesia plummet, says a professor.<\/h3>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cCountries that haven\u2019t got good immunisation rates &#8212; and Indonesia is one &#8211;have more measles and rubella,\u201d ANU\u2019s professor Peter Collingnon has told FIVEAA\u2019s Leon Byner. \u201cThat can be a problem for us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou could say it shouldn\u2019t be a problem for us because we\u2019re all fully immunised\u2026 but the trouble with measles is people who bring it back to Australia are often not immunised\u2026 and they bring it back.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe trouble with any vaccine we\u2019ve got is it\u2019s never 100 per cent effective. Even if something is 95 per cent effective, which sounds pretty good, it means there is a percentage of the population that will be still be susceptible. And also immunity can wane a bit with time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes, it is a problem even for people from Australia who should all be immunised\u2026 although to put it in perspective their chances are very much lower than if they weren\u2019t immunised.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe trouble with measles it is a very infectious agent so one person can infect 20 or 30 others\u2026 you can still have it spreading in a country like Australia.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Professor Collingnon advised anyone travelling overseas to make sure their immunisations are up to date and take care with their personal hygiene. 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