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\nTe Papa was one of the locations visited by the tourist in February.
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A tourist who was in New Zealand while infected with measles visited Te Papa museum and the Wellington botanical gardens.<\/p>\n
On Sunday, Health New Zealand confirmed 13 other measles locations of interest linked to the traveller between 23-27 February.<\/p>\n
The case was confirmed after they left the country.<\/p>\n
Trains, tourist spots, Parliament tours and both Wellington and Auckland airports are among the locations of interest.<\/p>\n
The health agency has added Te Papa and the Wellington Botanical Gardens to the list on Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n
The person visited Te Papa Museum on 26 February between 10am and 1pm and Wellington Botanical Gardens on he same day between 1pm and 2.30pm.<\/p>\n
Health New Zealand said anyone who suspected they had measles should phone ahead before visiting their doctor so they could take precautions to stop it spreading.<\/p>\n
Symptoms include a runny nose, fever, cough, sore watery eyes and a rash that develops a few days after the fever.<\/p>\n
“We remind everyone that measles is one of the most highly contagious illnesses of all infectious diseases and spreads very easily. Anyone who was at a location of interest should monitor for symptoms of measles,” said Dr Emma Sherwood, a public health specialist at Health NZ.<\/p>\n
“When given after 12 months of age, two doses of the MMR vaccine protects 99 percent of people and gives the best long-lasting protection. It is still possible for people who are vaccinated to get the illness, but it is much less likely.”<\/p>\n
Locations of interest<\/p>\n
23\/02\/2026 (7:30am to 8:30am) Train HVL Epuni to Upper Hutt<\/p>\n
23\/02\/26 (9:30pm to 1:00pm) Nga Manu Reserve, Waikanae<\/p>\n
23\/02\/26 (12:15pm to 4:15pm) Adrenaline Forest, Porirua<\/p>\n
23\/02\/2026 (4pm to 5:30pm) Train HVL Upper Hutt to Epuni<\/p>\n
24\/02\/2026 (9am to 10am) Train HVL Epuni to Wellington Station<\/p>\n
24\/02\/2026 (3pm to 4pm) Train HVL Wellington Station to Epuni Station<\/p>\n
25\/02\/26 (5:15pm to 8:30pm) Fraser Park Sportsville \/ Ricoh Sports Centre<\/p>\n
26\/02\/2026 (8.30am to 9.30am) Train HVL Epuni to Wellington Station<\/p>\n
26\/02\/2026 (10am to 1pm) Te Papa Museum<\/p>\n
26\/02\/26 (12:00pm to 1:30pm) Cable Car, 280 Lambton Quay, Wellington<\/p>\n
26\/02\/26 (1pm and 2.30pm) Wellington Botanical Gardens<\/p>\n
26\/02\/26 (1:30pm to 4:00pm) Parliament Tour (bespoke tour for educational group)<\/p>\n
26\/02\/26 (4:10pm to 8:20pm) Wellington Airport Domestic Terminal<\/p>\n
26\/02\/26 (8:30pm to10:30pm) Auckland Airport Domestic Terminal<\/p>\n
26\/02\/26-27\/02\/26 (9:00pm to 1:00am) Auckland Airport’s International Terminal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Te Papa was one of the locations visited by the tourist in February. Photo: CC4.0 A tourist who…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":320194,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[48,47,111,43,139,69,49,46,44,45],"class_list":{"0":"post-320193","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-audio","9":"tag-current-affairs","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz","14":"tag-podcasts","15":"tag-public-radio","16":"tag-radio-new-zealand","17":"tag-rnz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320193","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=320193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320193\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/320194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}