worries doctors as vaccination rates fall
Most of the people potentially exposed to measles on a flight from Indonesia have been tracked down - but health officials are urgently looking for five more.
Paediatricians are worried about the scare - the third this year - in the face of falling vaccination rates.
Te Whatu Ora had been urgently contacting 44 people who were on a Jakarta to Sydney flight on 15 February, and who then travelled to New Zealand.
It had reached 31 who were either immune or overseas.
Eight more had been contacted but have yet to be interviewed by public health staff, while they are still looking for five more.
Anyone who had contracted the disease would likely be infectious now.
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