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      • Asthma Program
      • Bed Wetting Program
      • CardioVascular Program
      • Coordinated Veterans Care (CVC)
      • Diabetes Clinic
      • Duty Doctor
      • Iron Infusion
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      • Molescan
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IMMUNISATION

​Immunisation is of vital importance in preventing a number of very nasty and frequently fatal illnesses. Because many immunisation programs have been extremely successful, many of the diseases have become very rare - so rare that many people now know little of them - diseases such as diphtheria, smallpox and polio - these diseases were much more common and killed many more people than infections such as HIV and hepatitis about which we hear so much. Smallpox - the scourge of much of the world for centuries, has been completely eradicated by immunisation.
Vaccination is when a vaccine is administered to you (usually by injection).  Immunisation is what happens in your body after you have the vaccination.  ​The vaccine stimulates your immune system so that it can recognise the disease and protect you from future infection i.e. you become immune to the infection.
​As stated on Immunise Australia Program:
"Immunisation remains the safest and most effective way to stop the spread of many of the world’s most infectious diseases. Before the major vaccination campaigns of the 1960s and ’70s, diseases like tetanus, diphtheria and whooping cough (pertussis) killed thousands of young children each year. Today, deaths from these diseases are extremely rare in Australia, and the rest of the developed world."
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​Immunisation Schedule for Children
Immunisations for Adults
Chickenpox (Varicella) Vaccine
​Gardasil Vaccine - HPV (Genital Warts) Vaccine
Hepatitis A Vaccine    
Hepatitis B Vaccine
Hib - Haemophilus Influenza B
Influenza Vaccine 
MMR Vaccine  

Meningococcal Vaccine
Pneumococcal Vaccine-incl Prevenar  
Polio Vaccine  
Rotavirus
Triple Antigen IPV
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Zostavax

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It is imperative that we do not become complacent about immunisation as these diseases could rapidly re-emerge if the number of people with immunity from vaccination should decline.
A Doctor's appointment is required for all vaccinations

St. Agnes Surgery
1251 North East Road, Ridgehaven, SA  5097
P: 08 8264 3333   F: 08 8263 8590
E: mail@stagnessurgery.com.au
Tea Tree Medical Centre
975 North East Road, Modbury, SA  5092
P: 08 8264 4555   F: 08 8263 9062    
E: 
mail@stagnessurgery.com.au
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The Practice would like to acknowledge and thank Dr Milton Hart for the majority of the content and Katrina Nichols of Kauri Computing for publishing our website.