{"id":634936,"date":"2026-04-27T22:28:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T22:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/634936\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T22:28:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T22:28:08","slug":"the-illawarra-urged-to-stay-vaccinated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/634936\/","title":{"rendered":"The Illawarra urged to stay vaccinated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Coordinaire\u2019s Southern NSW Medical Director, is urging Illawarra residents to stay up to date with vaccinations, to protect themselves and others.<\/p>\n<p>As part of World Immunisation Week, Dr Erica Cameron-Taylor said the rates of flu, whooping cough, and measles, are especially concerning.<\/p>\n<p>NSW Health Respiratory Surveillance Reports, indicate kids aged 0-4 and 5-16, had the highest flu notification rates of any age group in 2025, while whooping cough notifications are the highest since records began.<\/p>\n<p>Article continues after this ad<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Coordinaire\u2019s Southern NSW Medical Director, is urging Illawarra residents to stay up to date with vaccinations, to protect&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":634937,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[64,63,307416,137,68245,301872],"class_list":{"0":"post-634936","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-coordinaire-southern-nsw","11":"tag-health","12":"tag-immunisation","13":"tag-world-immunisation-week"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634936","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=634936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/634937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=634936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=634936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=634936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}