{"id":125839,"date":"2025-11-09T06:30:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T06:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/125839\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T06:30:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T06:30:08","slug":"one-new-case-with-no-links-may-indicate-undetected-measles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/125839\/","title":{"rendered":"One new case with no links may indicate undetected measles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/4K4012U_Measles_Virus_CDC_jpg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"548\" alt=\"The measles virus, the US CDC says measles is very contagious and can be serious, and anyone who is not protected against the virus is at risk.\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nOne new measles case has been found in Nelson with no links to others that have had the disease.<br \/>\nPhoto: Supplied\/ US CDC\n<\/p>\n<p>Health New Zealand says one new measles case has been found in Nelson with no links to others that have had the disease.<\/p>\n<p>There have now been 18 confirmed cases in the outbreak of measles &#8212; 17 of them are no longer infectious.<\/p>\n<p>The latest case was not linked to any previous cases, which may indicate undetected measles circulating in the community.<\/p>\n<p>Health NZ said anyone who lived in Nelson or had been there between 1 -7 November should check the Health New Zealand locations-of-interest page over the next few days.<\/p>\n<p>The agency anticipated more cases, as the outbreak continued.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;New Zealand continues to remain at high risk from measles.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/radionz.us6.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=211a938dcf3e634ba2427dde9&amp;id=b3d362e693\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up for Ng\u0101 Pitopito K\u014drero<\/a>, a daily newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One new measles case has been found in Nelson with no links to others that have had the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":111851,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[48,47,42,43,49,46,44,45,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-125839","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-audio","9":"tag-current-affairs","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-podcasts","13":"tag-public-radio","14":"tag-radio-new-zealand","15":"tag-rnz","16":"tag-top-news","17":"tag-top-stories","18":"tag-topnews","19":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125839","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=125839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}