Three-year-old South Australian Clive Bussenschutt is currently undergoing rehabilitation after suffering from severe side effects – including brain inflammation – from influenza after he failed to get a vaccine this year.

The State Government today announced the rollout of a new no-needle flu vaccine for South Australian children aimed to ensure other kids do not end up hospitalised like Clive.

Health Minister Chris Picton said the new no-needle nasal spray vaccine called FluMist would be free of charge for children aged between two and five starting next year.

Clive’s mother Monique Bussenschutt said if FluMist was an option, “we would have 100 per cent gone for it”.

She said Clive was not vaccinated this year amid time constraints and then “came down unwell really, really rapidly”.

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