This session covers the basic information paediatric trainees need to know about vaccines and the diseases they prevent, the history of the expanded programme of immunisation (EPI), the different types of vaccines, and the recent changes to the vaccine schedule. This will help you become familiar with the current EPI schedule, and vaccine terminology, for example what live attenuated, inactivated, recombinant, conjugate, and adjuvant mean. We also cover the science of why measles outbreaks occur, and the reasons for recent polio and pertussis outbreaks in PNG.

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