Measles confirmed in Wellington
A teenage girl was in the Bay of Plenty before being hospitalised in Wellington.
A teenage girl was in the Bay of Plenty before being hospitalised in Wellington.
The cases follow outbreaks in Christchurch and Auckland.
Health authorities concerned and say more people should be vaccinated against the disease.
An overwhelming majority of doctors are confident in childhood immunisation, study finds.
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Convincing parents kids need the jab not as simple as giving them the facts, says prof.
The family of a pro-immunisation doctor have been attacked by the anti-vax community.
A Christchurch man contracted measles while holidaying in Bali.
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Jasmin Floyd just thought she had a stiff neck. Little did she know she was growing a second skeleton that would eventually trap her in her own body.
Whanganui GP Alan Mangan has seen almost nobody with a bout of full-on true influenza this season.
A fifth case of measles has been confirmed in Northland with the DHB desperately urging people to make sure they are immunised.
New Zealand fathers-to-be are nearly twice as likely as their pregnant partners to be undecided about immunisation before their child is born.
Some parents are putting off or ditching plans to immunise children after discouraging information, a study shows.
A 4-year-old boy has died of flu in what experts are warning is one of the most intense seasons in recent years.
A controversial anti-vaccination organisation has come under fire for comparing compulsory vaccination to rape in a social media post.
Parents who refuse vitamin K for their newborns are more likely to also turn down childhood immunisations, a study has found.
Parents of well-off Pakeha girls are less likely to get their daughters immunised against an STI because "white girls don't have sex", a health researcher believes.
A national measles outbreak began in the US in December, traced to the Disneyland theme park in Anaheim, California.
In a bid to fight the country's whooping cough epidemic, an Auckland nurse is ensuring her entire family is immunised against the disease.
The death of a 6-week old Christchurch baby from whooping cough in 2012 was preventable, a coroner has concluded.
Kiwi babies look likely to get free vaccinations against chickenpox and rotavirus later this year - up to six years after Australia.
The parents of a 6-week-old girl who died of whooping cough say they wish they had known the threat to their baby before they took her home from hospital.
The Waikato District Health Board is offering free whooping cough vaccinations to women from 20 weeks of pregnancy up until to two weeks after the birth of their babies.