Measles threat to NCEA exams
Unvaccinated students exposed to measles may not be able to sit NCEA exams.
Unvaccinated students exposed to measles may not be able to sit NCEA exams.
Auckland Regional Public Health Service is addressing media about the measles outbreak.
Comment: Immunise your children and be alert for signs of measles.
School holidays could bring fresh outbreaks if infected kids travel outside Auckland.
This 45-year-old man was healthy and fit. He's now desperately sick from measles.
In the past week 32 babies under 1 have been confirmed to have measles.
The family of a 9-month-old on life-support with measles speak of their ordeal.
There will always be a few people who don't develop immunity, health authorities say.
The rate of measles vaccinations has quadrupled in three weeks.
A worrying number of pet owners say they do not think vaccines are necessary.
Editorial: Care and caution are required to ward off complacency around immunisation.
The MMR vaccine is meant to be free for under 50s, the Ministry of Health says.
The person departed Auckland on August 30, at 8.45am on Air New Zealand Flight NZ123.
Health officials reveal the latest on the measles outbreak.
Vials of the MMR vaccine have been flying off the shelves at a rate of 20,000 per month.
The person flew with Air New Zealand on Flight NZ711 and NZ108 in late August.
A kidney transplant and medication has cancelled out Max's immunity to measles.
There have now been 963 cases of measles confirmed across the country.
A vaccine programme will start at the worst-hit school tomorrow.
Just 77 per cent of six-month-old babies are now getting their vaccines on time.
Measles is a nasty virus that parents should watch out for, one mum says.
Around 40% of those infected with measles during the outbreak have been hospitalised.
There's been more than 850 measles cases, making it NZ's worst epidemic in 22 years.
Health authority has been notified of 10 cases of measles at the school.
New measles cases being confirmed every day as city teeters on an epidemic.
Almost a third of Auckland cases occurred in the last eight days, most in South Auckland.
More than half of all cases are in South Auckland.
Kiwi kids at "growing risk" of dying from measles if the Government does not act soon.
Incident has left the boy with a partially paralysed facial nerve, says mother.