One new cases of measles has been reported \u2013 linked to Auckland Airport \u2013 bringing the total number of measles cases nationwide to 19.<\/p>\n
Health NZ said the new case was confirmed late on Tuesday and was domestic. <\/p>\n
Officials said the case was linked to Auckland Airport. The infected person was now isolating, with public health services in touch to provide advice and support. <\/p>\n
“No other new cases of measles have been identified by public health at this time,” the statement from Health NZ said.<\/p>\n
Locations of interest for the case were still being assessed, with an exposure event so far being identified at Auckland Airport. <\/p>\n
The ministry website noted a “casual” exposure event on November 4 at Auckland International Airport from 2pm to 9.30pm and at the Domestic Terminal from 2pm to 3pm on the same day.<\/p>\n
Rapid immunity checks were taking place for exposed staff, Health NZ said.<\/p>\n
“Individuals travelling through international ports are routinely assessed for infectious diseases if they report feeling unwell and are provided with healthcare advice and support as needed,” the statement said.<\/p>\n
One case removed from NZ’s tally<\/p>\n
One earlier reported measles case was removed from the total, Health NZ added.<\/p>\n
“While they were initially infectious in New Zealand, they have since returned overseas where they were diagnosed and will be officially counted as a case there.”<\/p>\n
Symptoms included an illness that begins with high fever (over 38C); cough; runny nose; sore red eyes (conjunctivitis); and a rash, lasting up to one week beginning on the face and gradually spreading down the body to the arms and legs.<\/p>\n
Anyone who developed symptoms should contact Healthline on 0800 611 116 or their usual healthcare provider.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One new cases of measles has been reported \u2013 linked to Auckland Airport \u2013 bringing the total number…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":142040,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[51,134,111,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-142039","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health","8":"tag-auckland","9":"tag-health","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-newzealand","12":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142039","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=142039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}