"Premier Gets Flu Jab to Encourage Others to Do the Same"
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"Premier Gets Flu Jab to Encourage Others to Do
the Same"
Australian Associated Press (AAP) (aap.com.au)
(04/22/03)
In order to encourage more South Australians to
get immunized against influenza this winter, Premier Mike Rann got a flu
vaccination from his Science and Information Technology Minister Jane
Lomax-Smith. Lomax-Smith also vaccinated Health Minister Lea Stevens against
the illness. An A$26 million federal program in Australia is providing the
country's senior population, those over the age of 65 years, with free flu
vaccination, because 90 percent of flu-related deaths in the country occur in
people over the age of 65 years.
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