
Measles outbreak: Child critically ill in hospital
Around 40% of those infected with measles during the outbreak have been hospitalised.
Around 40% of those infected with measles during the outbreak have been hospitalised.
There's been more than 850 measles cases, making it NZ's worst epidemic in 22 years.
Health authority has been notified of 10 cases of measles at the school.
New measles cases being confirmed every day as city teeters on an epidemic.
Almost a third of Auckland cases occurred in the last eight days, most in South Auckland.
More than half of all cases are in South Auckland.
Kiwi kids at "growing risk" of dying from measles if the Government does not act soon.
Incident has left the boy with a partially paralysed facial nerve, says mother.
Funding meningococcal vaccine would save lives and give his son a legacy, dad says.
"The only way we can stop measles from returning is to increase immunity in our community"
Canterbury outbreak seems to have been contained while Auckland's continues to spike.
The number of measles cases hit 20 in the Bay of Plenty today
A teenage girl was in the Bay of Plenty before being hospitalised in Wellington.
The cases follow outbreaks in Christchurch and Auckland.
Health authorities concerned and say more people should be vaccinated against the disease.
An overwhelming majority of doctors are confident in childhood immunisation, study finds.
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About 30 per cent of high-school pupils may not be fully immunised against mumps.
Two nurses failed to notice that a 15-month-old boy was being given the wrong vaccine.
The family of a pro-immunisation doctor have been attacked by the anti-vax community.
A Christchurch man contracted measles while holidaying in Bali.
Infants will have to be enrolled with a GP within six weeks under a proposed law change.
Jasmin Floyd just thought she had a stiff neck. Little did she know she was growing a second skeleton that would eventually trap her in her own body.
Whanganui GP Alan Mangan has seen almost nobody with a bout of full-on true influenza this season.
A fifth case of measles has been confirmed in Northland with the DHB desperately urging people to make sure they are immunised.
New Zealand fathers-to-be are nearly twice as likely as their pregnant partners to be undecided about immunisation before their child is born.
Some parents are putting off or ditching plans to immunise children after discouraging information, a study shows.
A 4-year-old boy has died of flu in what experts are warning is one of the most intense seasons in recent years.