{"id":578037,"date":"2026-04-01T07:18:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T07:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/578037\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T07:18:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T07:18:09","slug":"doctors-warn-of-decades-long-ripple-effect-with-80000-children-not-fully-vaccinated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/578037\/","title":{"rendered":"Doctors warn of decades-long ripple effect with 80,000 children not fully vaccinated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Only 90.5% of children are now fully vaccinated at 12 months, down from 94.8% five years ago, new data show.<\/p>\n<p>Full vaccine coverage at five years has also fallen to 92.5%, according to preliminary data from the National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance (NCIRS) Annual Immunisation Coverage Report 2025.<\/p>\n<p>This translated to 80,000 children not fully vaccinated, said NCIRS\u00a0director Professor Kristine Macartney.<\/p>\n<p>She said Australia needed to do something to get its immunisation program \u201cback on track\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\u00d7<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tSign in\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"d-none message adg-password-reset\">\n\t\t\t\tIf this is your first visit to the new AusDoc website, reset your password<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"adg-reset_password_link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ausdoc.com.au\/wp-login.php?action=lostpassword\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here.<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Only 90.5% of children are now fully vaccinated at 12 months, down from 94.8% five years ago, new&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":578038,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[64,63,11910,137,53953,68245,2166,186648,44,48167,3851],"class_list":{"0":"post-578037","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-general-practice","11":"tag-health","12":"tag-hpv-vaccine","13":"tag-immunisation","14":"tag-infectious-diseases","15":"tag-infectious-diseases-immunisation","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-paediatrics","18":"tag-vaccination"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=578037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/578038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}