{"id":107950,"date":"2025-10-30T00:39:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T00:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/107950\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T00:39:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T00:39:07","slug":"measles-outbreak-grows-to-13-cases-as-health-nz-warns-of-high-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/107950\/","title":{"rendered":"Measles outbreak grows to 13 cases as Health NZ warns of high risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"qtLpbIHvhN\" style=\"display:none\">The other case is also in Auckland and currently has no links to any other cases. <\/p>\n<p class=\"qtLpbIHvhN\" style=\"display:none\">Chamberlain said NZ is still in the earlier stages of an outbreak. <\/p>\n<p class=\"qtLpbIHvhN\" style=\"display:none\">Director of public health Corina Grey said some of the cases have been hospitalised. <\/p>\n<p class=\"qtLpbIHvhN\" style=\"display:none\">University of Canterbury senior lecturer in epidemiology, Anna Howe, told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iheart.com\/podcast\/1049-the-front-page-30038501\/?pname=nzh_web&amp;sc=podcast_show\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.iheart.com\/podcast\/1049-the-front-page-30038501\/?pname=nzh_web&amp;sc=podcast_show\" target=\"_blank\">The Front Page<\/a> she thinks there is community transmission and we\u2019re sitting in an \u201cextremely precarious position\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"qtLpbIHvhN\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cIt\u2019s just a case of waiting a few more weeks, probably to see how bad it\u2019s going to get.<\/p>\n<p class=\"qtLpbIHvhN\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cMeasles is one of our most infectious diseases, and so in an unvaccinated population, one person can potentially make 12 to 18 other people sick,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"qtLpbIHvhN\" style=\"display:none\">Measles is so infectious that it requires an immunity rate of at least 95% in the community to prevent spread.<\/p>\n<p class=\"qtLpbIHvhN\" style=\"display:none\">Health NZ said getting two doses of the MMR vaccine after 12 months of age protects 99% of people from measles and is free for most people. <\/p>\n<p class=\"qtLpbIHvhN\" style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/the-daily-h-your-fast-smart-guide-to-the-days-biggest-headlines\/VQR5CULLQRECZP2ORSWPGDORBU\/?utm_source=nzherald&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_id=nz_cta\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/the-daily-h-your-fast-smart-guide-to-the-days-biggest-headlines\/VQR5CULLQRECZP2ORSWPGDORBU\/?utm_source=nzherald&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_id=nz_cta\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up to The Daily H<\/a>, a free newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The other case is also in Auckland and currently has no links to any other cases. Chamberlain said&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55698,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[19838,2840,806,11783,2512,2841,9978,305,134,2959,20311,111,139,69,1118,17976,77657,7192,684,61,3940,8218,5977],"class_list":["post-107950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-19838","tag-across","tag-as","tag-brought","tag-cases","tag-country","tag-grows","tag-have","tag-health","tag-high","tag-measles","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-of","tag-outbreak","tag-outbreaks","tag-risk","tag-there","tag-to","tag-total","tag-warns","tag-which"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}