A measles outbreak has been confirmed in Canterbury. Two people from Rangiora and one person from Christchurch have contracted the highly infectious and potentially life-threatening disease in four days. If unimmunised people come within 2m of an infectious person, they have a 90 percent chance of contracting measles. It is also encouraging anyone with measles symptoms, or who thinks they may have been exposed, to contact their GP. People are considered immune if they have received two doses of measles, mumps, rubella vaccine, have had a measles illness previously, or were born before 1969.

Source: Otago Daily Times February 26, 2019 02:48 UTC