Health

2019 - the year of measles

09:50 am on 18 December 2019

Photo: RNZ / Logan Church

This year New Zealanders were reminded of just how dangerous measles could be, as cases spiked around the country - and particularly in Auckland.  The epidemic turned deadly in Samoa, where 73 people - mainly young children - have died. Kathryn talks to Dr Nikki Turner from the Immunisation Advisory Centre on the disease's devastation, and what it might mean for the country's measles elimination status.

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