Measles started with a high fever, red itchy eyes, a cough and runny nose. A rash followed, starting on the face then covering the body.<\/p>\n
Chickenpox started with itchy blisters all over the body. Fever is mild to moderate, and a headache or fatigue might be present.<\/p>\n
Both viruses could cause serious illness, and measles is especially dangerous and can lead to pneumonia, brain swelling, and other health complications such as hearing loss, said the statement.<\/p>\n
Deliberately exposing tamariki to measles could put them and others at serious risk, especially those who are immunocompromised. <\/p>\n
Immunity to measles can occur in two ways.<\/p>\n
People born in Aotearoa New Zealand, before 1969 were likely to be immune to measles.<\/p>\n
This is because there were no measles vaccines before this time, so most people were infected with measles during childhood.<\/p>\n
Measles is highly infectious. An immunity rate of 95% was considered a requirement to prevent community spread.<\/p>\n
The latest Health Target results, for the quarter ending June 30, showed 82% of New Zealand 2-year-olds were fully immunised.<\/p>\n
Tair\u0101whiti rated 17th out of 20 health districts with an immunisation rate of 74.5%.<\/p>\n
A spokeswoman for Health NZ \u2013 Tair\u0101whiti told the Gisborne Herald that coverage at the two-year milestone had increased from 68.1% in the quarter to March 2025 to 74.5% in the quarter to June 2025.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ll continue to deliver outreach and other immunisation services according to the need of the community [in-home, clinics, events, etc] and working closely with health providers across Tair\u0101whiti, improve systems through the Aotearoa Immunisation Register, address vaccine hesitancy, and increase our vaccinator workforce,\u201d the spokeswoman said.<\/p>\n
\u201cUnderstanding vaccine hesitancy is a key focus for Health NZ and ensuring that strategies to address this are informed by the voice of wh\u0101nau.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Measles started with a high fever, red itchy eyes, a cough and runny nose. A rash followed, starting…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":109690,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[5432,78743,11662,37119,71,134,221,13640,6036,20311,111,139,69,78742,312,30279,18323,61,80],"class_list":{"0":"post-109689","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health","8":"tag-between","9":"tag-chickenpox","10":"tag-difference","11":"tag-explains","12":"tag-from","13":"tag-health","14":"tag-how","15":"tag-important","16":"tag-know","17":"tag-measles","18":"tag-new-zealand","19":"tag-newzealand","20":"tag-nz","21":"tag-nztairawhiti","22":"tag-says","23":"tag-tairwhiti","24":"tag-tell","25":"tag-to","26":"tag-zealand"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109689","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=109689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}