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Speaker 1: Measles is starting to spread across the country. Healthy and

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Speaker 1: Zed saying we now have seventeen confirmed cases. Doctor Laura

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Speaker 1: five for morning.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, lok. How are you doing?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? Good? How nasty is this?

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Speaker 2: It's a really really contagious disease. That means it's very

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Speaker 2: easy to get it from other people. Unlike things like COVID,

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Speaker 2: where particularly the latest strange you needed to be in

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Speaker 2: a room with someone for ten to fifteen minutes. This

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Speaker 2: is airborne. It's really it lives on surfaces. It's really

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Speaker 2: really contagious. The reason we're so worried about it is

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Speaker 2: that particularly little people, those under one years of age,

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Speaker 2: if they get it, about one in three of those

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Speaker 2: need to go to hospital for things like pneumonia, severe diarrhea,

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Speaker 2: and even brain swelling. So it's a really really important

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Speaker 2: thing for us to be talking about and trying to

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Speaker 2: prevent it.

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Speaker 1: Why did I have in my head that measles causes

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Speaker 1: bumps and swelling? What does it do to us?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so it starts off a little bit like a

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Speaker 2: general cold or flu. Times. Conjunctivitis is an early signed too, so.

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Speaker 1: Red eyes, there is a lot of that. Doing the

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Speaker 1: rounds through the day here is in particular at the

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Speaker 1: moment yep.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and sometimes it's just conjunctive by this, but measles

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Speaker 2: often has that cold a bit of conjunctividis, and then

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Speaker 2: about a week later, the kids get this rash that

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Speaker 2: starts on their face, spreads down their chest and onto

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Speaker 2: their arms. I also can sometimes about two thirds of

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Speaker 2: kids also get a spot inside their mouths, so there's

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Speaker 2: little white spots on the inside of their cheek linings

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Speaker 2: as well. And that's another characteristic thing that we know

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Speaker 2: as measles.

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Speaker 1: You say, a week later, is this thing quite slow moving?

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Speaker 1: And which case that's scary because you hear on the

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Speaker 1: news than talking about these new cases that contracted it

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Speaker 1: weeks ago.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's one of the other difficult things about this

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Speaker 2: is sometimes to start getting the symptoms, it's about a

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Speaker 2: week after contacted somebody. Oh wow, And so you can

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Speaker 2: be carrying around with it and not know that you

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Speaker 2: have it. And so that's why isolation of people is

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Speaker 2: so important. That if we we know have it and

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Speaker 2: have contact with them, that they are isolated just because

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Speaker 2: we don't know. We don't know for the first week

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Speaker 2: or so, could be up to two weeks before they

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Speaker 2: start to show signs.

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Speaker 1: Beast protection is immunization, and we'll come back to how

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Speaker 1: we can get the JAB at the moment, But how

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Speaker 1: do we check if we're already protected Doctor.

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Speaker 2: Laura, Yeah, so it's really you can contact your GPS.

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Speaker 2: They should have your immunization records and we can generly

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Speaker 2: get those in about pressive button takes back in minutes

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Speaker 2: that come through from the system. Also our baby books.

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Speaker 2: For those people that were born before sort of two thousands,

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Speaker 2: it might be better to look on your baby books.

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Speaker 2: We need to see two documented at vaccines to know

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Speaker 2: that you have got protection. For people that are in

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Speaker 2: over there, sort of sixty years of age, we're less

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Speaker 2: worried about those people because they possibly have had exposure

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Speaker 2: to it previously. But for everyone under sixty years of age,

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Speaker 2: it's really important to be asking your GPS and nurses

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Speaker 2: if you're not sure, or looking up your old plunket

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Speaker 2: child's well being scene if you've got documented vaccines there.

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Speaker 1: So this is the MMR vaccine.

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Speaker 2: Correct stands for theses months in rebellus are three different diseases.

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Speaker 2: It's extremely effective and this vaccine has been around for

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Speaker 2: over forty years and we know a lot about it

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Speaker 2: and it's extremely effective. So we sort of think ninety

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Speaker 2: seven percent effective after two doses, which is if you

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Speaker 2: think about having contact with someone, you've almost got one

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Speaker 2: hundred percent chance of catching this disease. If you don't

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Speaker 2: aren't vaccinated, we can drop that to three percent.

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Speaker 1: Chants, Wow, that is good. Okay, So how do we

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Speaker 1: go about booking ourselves in?

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Speaker 2: So it is you know Measles Awareness Week. We're trying

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Speaker 2: to encourage people to go and get vaccines. Most general

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Speaker 2: practices stock this vaccine readily, so you can contact them

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Speaker 2: to book on for those vaccines. And there are probably

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Speaker 2: some clinics running through places like Asberton christ Church that

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Speaker 2: are doing extra catch up vaccines, so it's easy ring up.

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Speaker 2: If you're not sure, in uncertain of your vaccine status,

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Speaker 2: it's absolutely safe to have an extra one, so just

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Speaker 2: get it done. Because we're looking after our really little people,

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Speaker 2: our kamaiki and those people with immune suppression, so it's

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Speaker 2: not just about the little people, it's about an entire

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Speaker 1: After our patch that herd immunity they talk about a

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Speaker 1: because for little little people, those under twelve months, they

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Speaker 1: can't get the vaccine right, that's right.

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Speaker 2: The very special cases, if children are traveling overseas to

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Speaker 2: high risk places, we can vaccinate a little bit earlier,

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Speaker 2: but it's a little bit case by case basis. The

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Speaker 2: reason we don't vaccinate those under twelve months old isn't

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Speaker 2: because the vaccine's not safe, but it's because they don't

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Speaker 2: actually amount a really good immune response because they still

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Speaker 2: have a wee bit of immunity from their mums, and

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Speaker 2: so we want to give it to them when it's

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Speaker 2: actually going to be the most effective, which we think

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Speaker 2: is about twelve months of age, once their own immune

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Speaker 2: systems are ready to go and mum's antibodies are passing

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Speaker 2: through the.

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Speaker 1: Chance for the rest of us to step up. And

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Speaker 1: there's a handy website you can go to as well,

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Speaker 1: Book my Vaccine dot Hels dot in z, which can

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Speaker 1: show you the way to doctor Laura appreciate your expertise.

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