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VCAL: Child vaccination: Home

For VCAL senior literacy: Belinda McGrath, Term 2 2021

VCAL Senior literacy - Reading for information

Questions to answer for each article

Read these!

Article 1. No jab, no play
From the Victorian Department of Health website
Article 2. Six myths about vaccination - and why the're wrong
An article in the journal "The Conversation" April 2013.
Article 3. Measles : why it's so deadly and why vaccination is so vital
An article from "The conversation" Feruary 2019
Article 4. Vaccines & autism
From the Kid's Health website
Article 5. An 'energy machine' to treat COVID-19, and 6 other false health claims made by Pete Evans.
Article on Pete Evans from Mammamia website
Article 6. Immunisation for your child

Watch Article 7 below.

Read and listen to this NBC news report!

Article 8. On Facebook, anti-vaxxers urged a mom not to give her son Tamiflu. He later died.

Read this report from the ABC

Article 9 Polio was eliminated in the Asia-Pacific. Then it suddenly came back.