Concerns over global resurgence of measles
Medics in southern New Zealand are giving measles vaccinations at outdoor clinics to try to combat a mass outbreak of the highly contagious virus.
There are 28 confirmed cases in Christchurch and authorities say 100,000 people in the Canterbury region urgently need vaccination.
The Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ has been speaking to New Zealand's Health Minister Dr David Clark about the gravity of the situation, and to the World Health Organization's Dr Lisa Menning on the rise in incidences of measles worldwide.
(IMAGE: MMR vaccine being drawn into a syringe - the combined vaccine which protects infants from three viral diseases: measles, mumps and rubella. CREDIT: TEK IMAGE/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)
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