Nearly five million older and immunocompromised Australians will be given free access to a shingles vaccine starting from 1 November. Shingles, which is also known as herpes zoster, is caused by the same virus as chickenpox and presents itself as ...

Article from the Joint ANF/RCNA Pandemic Influenza Working Group. Nurses and midwives will be aware of recent reports of high levels of fever and febrile convulsions after seasonal influenza vaccination, originally0 identified as a result of mandatory reporting of adverse ...