Two Hamilton schoolkids have contracted measles, causing one school to put quarantine measures in place.

Vaccinations for chicken pox, meningococcal C and HPV for boys must be added to NZ's free immunisation register, a health expert says.

A controversial anti-vaccination organisation has come under fire for comparing compulsory vaccination to rape in a social media post.

Parents who refuse vitamin K for their newborns are more likely to also turn down childhood immunisations, a study has found.

Parents of well-off Pakeha girls are less likely to get their daughters immunised against an STI because "white girls don't have sex", a health researcher believes.

A national measles outbreak began in the US in December, traced to the Disneyland theme park in Anaheim, California.

In a bid to fight the country's whooping cough epidemic, an Auckland nurse is ensuring her entire family is immunised against the disease.

Kiwi babies look likely to get free vaccinations against chickenpox and rotavirus later this year - up to six years after Australia.

The parents of a 6-week-old girl who died of whooping cough say they wish they had known the threat to their baby before they took her home from hospital.

The Waikato District Health Board is offering free whooping cough vaccinations to women from 20 weeks of pregnancy up until to two weeks after the birth of their babies.

A sudden epidemic of polio has ravaged the Democratic Republic of Congo.

A woman plans to appeal to the High Court after an ACC decision not to pay a $250,000 medical bill she was left with when she fell seriously ill after having a flu jab.