What's new?
New vaccine brand names offered on the vaccination schedule
Rotavirus - RotaTeq Vaccine
Rotavirus is a highly infectious disease which can cause severe diarrhoea and vomiting in infants and young children in Australia. WA is using the rotavirus vaccine RotaTeq which is scheduled to be given to babies as an oral dose at 2, 4 and 6 months of age. This can be given at the same time as the other vaccines on the schedule.
This vaccine cannot be given late as the safety of the vaccine has not been tested in older babies so present on time with your baby so they don’t miss out.
Quadracel
Quadracel is a vaccine used to help prevent whooping cough, tetanus, diphtheria and polio. This vaccine is for use in children under the age of 7. In Western Australia Quadracel is administered to children as a booster dose at 4 years of age. The vaccine contains the same antigens as Infanrix-IPV and is administered in the same way.
If you require factsheets on any of the information below, please contact the HealthInfo line on 1300 135 030 or access the Health Department’s online ordering (External link) system.
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This Public Health Victoria site provides fact sheets in different languages that can be used for Western Australia. The site provides languages in Arabic, Bosnian, Cambodian, Chinese, Croation, Greek, Indonesian, Italian, Khmer, Macedonian, Maltese, Polish, Russian, Serbian, Sinhalese, Somali, Spanish, Turkish and Vietnamese. Go to http://www.health.vic.gov.au/immunisation/language.htm (External link)
