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Speaker 1: Hammers at the Showgrounds hosting North Otago the final round

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Speaker 1: of the regular season. The Old Golds will be hungry

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Speaker 1: for this in a competition that couldn't be tighter. There's

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Speaker 1: just three points separating second to seventh on the table.

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Speaker 1: North Otago currently third with five straight wins. A win

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Speaker 1: tomorrow would lock up a top four for them, but

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Speaker 1: also see them going home with the hand and shields,

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Speaker 1: which naturally we're keen to prevent. If that wasn't enough

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Speaker 1: to get you along, it's also the charity game and

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Speaker 1: this is in support of the Meningitis Foundation, and they

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Speaker 1: are so blessed to have the strong support of Jed

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Speaker 1: and Clear Rushton, a couple of locals who dropped by

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Speaker 1: the studio to talk why this one is near and

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Speaker 1: dear to them.

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Speaker 2: Of course, we lost Courtney in twenty fourteen and then

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Speaker 2: a few years later after that we got involved with

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Speaker 2: the foundation. So we're just about raising awareness of meningitis

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Speaker 2: because one of the things that's prominent in all cases

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Speaker 2: meningitis is that people are simply not aware of the disease.

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Speaker 2: So we're pretty pretty active on that and we're lobbying

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Speaker 2: government to have everyone vaccinated for free by the time

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Speaker 2: they leave school.

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Speaker 1: So we're we're making a.

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Speaker 2: Bit of progress, but got a wall you way to go.

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Speaker 1: There's been some skiers lately, a clear hairs year.

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Speaker 3: We had just recently well five cases over five weeks,

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Speaker 3: so that is a bit unusual. We've never actually, probably

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Speaker 3: in the ten years we've been involved in the foundation,

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Speaker 3: actually had that many.

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Speaker 1: What makes this so concerning You carry.

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Speaker 3: It through your noses, through and nasal passages, and then

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Speaker 3: it's spread through contact. It can be you know, sneezing.

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Speaker 1: So much law and drinks flu covid much like flu.

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Speaker 3: It's spreads much like that.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, it's far more nasty though right for far.

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Speaker 3: More nasty and very hard to actually to diagnose. It's

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Speaker 3: quite hard because it does present something sometimes like the

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Speaker 3: flu or a bad hangover and young people as well,

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Speaker 3: so that's the hard thing. So and vaccination is the

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Speaker 3: only way to actually prevent prevent the disease.

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Speaker 2: We've developed QR codes that people can download onto their

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Speaker 2: phone so that the symptoms look But I mean, you've

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Speaker 2: just got to seek medical advice because it is just

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Speaker 2: not worth second guessing. You know, this disease can kill

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Speaker 2: more than twenty four hours. So a lot of the

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Speaker 2: other countries around the world have lower rates of meningitis

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Speaker 2: than us simply because they vaccinate. This is a preventable

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Speaker 2: disease and we shouldn't.

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Speaker 1: Be so the vaccine, it is readily available. Like if

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Speaker 1: we're the parent of a child, a teenager in particular,

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Speaker 1: you can actually go and ask for this at any time, right, you.

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Speaker 3: Can, You actually can. So there's two vaccines. There's one

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Speaker 3: which is men B, which protects against the B strain,

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Speaker 3: and then there's another one which is acw Y, which

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Speaker 3: protects against those four strains. So you can actually ask

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Speaker 3: your doctor or health health provider for those vaccines. MenB

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Speaker 3: is fully funded now for all infants under the age

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Speaker 3: of five, but we also would like to see that

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Speaker 3: doctors also recommend that infants can also get ACE, the ac.

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Speaker 1: W Y turbo charged one, that's the upsize.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and of course you're a young adolescent, so our

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Speaker 3: thirteen to twenty five year olds is a second high

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Speaker 3: risk group, so they also should have both vaccines.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, right, Why is that? Why are they sort of

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Speaker 1: high risk?

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Speaker 2: Well, it's just the way that young people actually socialize.

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Speaker 2: I think it's the way that they live because they're

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Speaker 2: burning the candle at both ends. So we don't know

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Speaker 2: why that isn't risk group, but it is. And you know,

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Speaker 2: particularly concerning that four to five times more likely the

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Speaker 2: Marriam Pacifica population are to get meningitis. So you know

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Speaker 2: the recent case of the sixteen year old in christ Church,

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Speaker 2: he was from Shirley Boys. None of those kids at

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Speaker 2: that school qualified for a free vaccination. No one at

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Speaker 2: Ashburton College qualifies for a free vaccination. So that's why

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Speaker 2: we're calling the government out on this and asking them

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Speaker 2: why is that. Why do they actually just think that

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Speaker 2: because you're privileged enough to go to a boarding school

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Speaker 2: or a wholes of residents, you should qualify for a

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Speaker 2: free vaccine