1982-1984 vaccine schedule for Australia?

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Is anyone able to find the scheduled vaccinations for children in the years 1982 - 1984 for Australia? I am trying to find them out so I can compare a timeline of vaccines for myself as my mother does not have any vaccination records for me but says I got all my shots up to until I got sick then the rest were delayed until I was schoolage I think.

[Spy]

There wasn't a whole lot of vaccination records in Australia prior to mid-90s :). I am pretty sure that you would have got wholecell DPT (my guess is 3 doses), oral polio vaccine (3 or 4 doses, not sure), and some form of measles vaccine, with or without mumps and rubella, one dose around 12 months.

Check this out, this is the earliest written record on the subject, and it deals with 1993-1998 (and even then, if you read it thoroughly, you will notice how vague some things are), but the last appendix shows 'dates when vaccines became free in Australia' which might give some form of an idea of earlier schedules. http://www.health.gov.au/internet/main/publishing.nsf/content/cda-cdi2000sup-vpd93_98.htm/$FILE/vpd93_98.pdf

MT, your kids are about the same age, what was the measles story back then?

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I found one detailing the schedules for NZ. Curse Australia for not keeping any paperwork, I'm still looking.

Nz one - http: //www.nzma.org.nz/journal/119-1236/2035/

the cdc one for the usa - http ://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/pubs/mmwrpubs.htm#3

[Spy]

Some more here, not a schedule per se, but a slide showing which vaccine came on board in which year (slides 3 and 4), http://www.health.gov.au/internet/main/publishing.nsf/Content/261313B6FEC10EBDCA25732B00390E90/$File/dept230707.pdf

Which kind of implies that you most likely did NOT get rubella vaccine (unless you got one in adolescence which you might remember) and may or may not received mumps. It also says that 'different schedules were used across jurisdictions', which might explain why we are having so much trouble finding a 'schedule for Australia'...

Last slide is also priceless. :D

Is it just me or was Australia really slack about vaccination until very very recently??? No federal schedule, no real surveillance, not much of an idea of what's going on, some silly 'surveys' to determine the coverage... That might actually explain a few things I am seeing here :))).

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It seems Australia is slack. I think the only immunisation records for me would have existed in a book my mother was given by the doctor. She says this book was lost when a cupboard got bad water damage. I am a bit surprised that she can't remember what I got though.

At school when I was 12, I got a vaccine, bet that was rubella. Ever since that point, I've had some form of athritis. I remember whinging to my mother that my knees were aching. She scoffed and said children don't get athritis, thats for old people. Now when it gets cold or rains, I get achey knees. Sometimes it is really unbearable especially when it is really cold.

In high school when I was 14 we got a TB test. I know now the TB test injects stuff into your skin and they judge it by a reaction. When I moved to the USA i was supposed to get it again as a part of the visa process but I refused and they made me have a chest x ray instead. Sigh.

[Janet]

I'm older than you and I got the rubella so you would definitely have had it. I was diagnosed with a weird form of arthritis as a teen due to my own aching joints. *rolls eyes*

[Spy]

My parents couldn't tell what I got either. Other than 'everything on time' which does not mean much because in Russia aside from the basic schedule there were all sorts of 'campaigns' and 'extras' which would have been injected into children without necessarily telling their parents that it's been done let alone WHAT it was. I did get to see my record though (also the only document available) and it wasn't pretty. I think I got 3 or 4 BCG doses before school which made me very sick in childhood and gave me some life long issues. Those TB tests I had yearly for about 10 years until my mother said enough, since every time the results were so huge it wasn't funny - which in turn required a whole lot of further tests with no end...:rolleyes:

But if it makes you feel any better, I also have achy knees since adolescence and I am pretty sure I never got a rubella vaccine :). I did have real rubella though early in childhood.

[Janet]

I'm the poster child for unnecessary abx AND vaxxing. I imagine my health isshews fall somewhere between all that shite pumped into me and being weaned at 6 weeks as well. *sigh*