article_snippet.sent: And in fact, you know, those parents have taken decisions to immunise those parents children, and that's obviously the sensible thing to do.
article_snippet.sent: Currently around 39,000 children under the age of seven are not vaccinated.
article_snippet.sent: Currently around 39,000 Australian children under the age of seven are not vaccinated putting around 39,000 Australian children under the age of seven at risk of catching severe diseases .
article_snippet.sent: The heartbroken parents of a beautiful four-week-old baby boy who died after contracting whooping cough have appealed to other parents to make sure other parents get other parents and other parents children immunised against the deadly disease.
article_snippet.sent: whooping cough is part of the routine vaccination schedule for babies at two months, four months and six months of age.
article_snippet.sent: Booster doses are given at 4 years and 10-15 years.
article_snippet.sent: Infectious Diseases Expert at ANU Medical School Canberra, Sanjaya Senanayake, told Daily Mail Australia: 'From my point of view immunisation is wonderful particularly for whooping cough.'
article_snippet.sent: Infectious Diseases Expert at ANU Medical School Canberra, Sanjaya Senanayake explained infants are 'at a high risk of dying if infants get infected' and that the death rate from whooping cough in infants under 6 months of age is about 1 per cent.
article_snippet.sent: The Department of Health said vaccinations protect more than 95 per cent of children from measles, mumps, rubella, tetanus, polio and Hib, given vaccinations finish vaccinations courses. '
article_snippet.sent: One dose of meningococcal C vaccine at 12 months protects over 90 per cent of children.
article_snippet.sent: Three doses of whooping cough (pertussis) vaccine protects about 85 per cent of children who have been immunised, and will reduce the severity of the disease in the other 15 per cent if they do catch whooping cough.'