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Flu vaccine supply runs short

Posted on May 12, 2009, 1:01pm

The high demand for influenza vaccination this year has caused a temporary shortage in supply.

The Mount Gambier City Council has advised the shortage is for user-pay vaccine services and is unlikely to affect those people who are eligible for free vaccines through their medical practitioner.

Influenza vaccine will not be available at the City of Mount Gambier public immunisation sessions at the Child and Youth Health Centre on Heriot Street during May, but laboratories have gone into production again and it is anticipated that vaccine will be available again in mid June.
However, all childhood vaccinations under the Australian National Vaccinations Program are available at the centre on the second and fourth Wednesday of the month during the following sessions:

  • 9.30 — 10am: two to five-year-olds
  • 10 — 11am: two months to 18 months
  • 4.30 — 5pm: two to five year olds
  • 5 — 5.30 pm: two months to 18 months
  • 5.30 — 5.45pm: Adults and school students.

These vaccinations include diphtheria, tetanus, whooping cough, polio, rotavirus, pneumococcal, hepatitis B and haemophilus influenza type B, chicken pox, measles, mumps and rubella, rotavirus and meningococcal.

Vaccines missed during the school vaccination program cay be caught up at these sessions and adult vaccines such hepatitis A and B, and influenza, boosterix are available under a user-pay program during these sessions.

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One Response to “Flu vaccine supply runs short”

  1. Ebony Jackson on May 12th, 2009 3:08 pm 1

    Mid June?
    Why bother.