Dear Dr Dettman,
My name is ********, I am the mother of an 18 month old daughter.
I belong to an online forum BellyBelly (
www.bellybelly.com.au), which is a gentle parenting website.
Lately there has been much debate on vaccination, both for an against, with so many parents at a loss as to where to locate or how to obtain individual vaccinations in order to selectively vaccinate their children.
I myself am firmly anti-vaccination, my daughter has received only a single Hep B vax at this point. I would however like her to receive a tetanus vaccination.
Myself and others have been trying to find out how to obtain individual doses of this, Whooping Cough and a few others.
At the this point they are lost, with no help from their GPs except to be told that nobody actually produces these vaccines individually anymore, they are not available and they must therefore vaccinate their children with the combined needle, which apparently now contains just about all the immunisations in one needle.
They are needless to say very dissatisfied with this response.
After running in to yet another dead end, and in my own research prior to and since the birth of my daughter into vaccinations, your father's name, your name and Dr Archie Kalokerinos' name have been the most prominent I can find.
I tracked down your contact details the ZoomInfo website. I hope you do not object to my contacting you, but as you can see, we are running out of avenues!
If you cannot or are not interested in helping me then I completely understand, and please disregard this email.
However, if you are in a position to advise me who to turn to, ask or pay to find vaccinations in an individual fashion in Australia (I personally live in *******, but these families I am speaking on behalf of are all over Australia) can you please find some time to send me a reply.
We are looking for any lead to pursue, be it a GP, hospital, private clinic or contacting a manufacturing company directly to try and obtain these vaccines.
I thank you for taking the time to read this email, and in advance for any reply you can offer.
Yours faithfully,
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