DATA showing the Border region with the second-highest rate of child immunisation in the country are figures the region’s parents and health providers should be proud of.
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The story here and further west at Bundalong and Yarrawonga is far different from other areas that have recorded a decline in child immunisation rates and increased concerns about the potential spread of preventable diseases believed to have been all but stamped out.
Throughout the region covered by Hume Medicare Local, figures show 93.9 per cent of one-year-olds are immunised, with the percentage slightly higher for two and five-year-olds.
Importantly the figures also reveal the region has one of the lowest rates of parental objection to immunisation with only 14 parents of one-year-olds saying no to having their children immunised.
The figures aren’t all good news. The number of teenage girls who have received the human papillomavirus vaccine to prevent cervical cancer is below the national average in our region.
Authorities have warned complacency is the greatest threat to immunisation rates and the potential for diseases to re-emerge if fewer people are immunised against their spread.
