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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Natasha May

Children’s medicines in short supply across Australia as cold and flu cases continue to rise

People walking past a pharmacy
Some chemists have limited the amount of children’s medication customers can buy in the midst of an antibiotics shortage during cold and flu season. Photograph: Bloomberg/Getty Images

Australian parents are struggling to find medicines for their children as cold and flu cases continue to rise this winter, according to health experts and practitioners.

As part of ongoing medicine shortages caused by global supply problems since the Covid pandemic, children’s medicine has become a “hotspot” in the last couple of weeks.

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