{"id":16748,"date":"2026-02-24T17:42:42","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T04:42:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=16748"},"modified":"2026-02-24T17:42:42","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T04:42:42","slug":"two-measles-cases-detected-linked-to-overseas-travel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=16748","title":{"rendered":"Two measles cases detected, linked to overseas travel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two new cases of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/what-you-need-to-know\/576605\/measles-in-new-zealand-what-you-need-to-know-about-the-deadly-virus\">measles<\/a>\u00a0have been detected and both have been linked to international travel.<\/p>\n<p>Health New Zealand said locations of interest include Auckland International Airport and Wait\u0101kere Hospital&#8217;s emergency department.<\/p>\n<p>Health officials are attempting to contact people on flight SQ281 from Singapore.<\/p>\n<p>Medical Officer of Health Dr Richard Vipond said measles is a serious and highly infectious illness.<\/p>\n<p>He said anyone with symptoms should phone health care providers before turning up to prevent the spread and the best form of protection was the MMR vaccine.<\/p>\n<p>The measles outbreak which began in September 2025\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/national\/585904\/measles-outbreak-officially-over-but-risk-remains\">officially ended earlier this month<\/a>, but health officials warned the risk remained.<\/p>\n<p>~ RNZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two new cases of\u00a0measles\u00a0have been detected and both have been linked to international travel. Health New Zealand said locations of interest include Auckland International Airport and Wait\u0101kere Hospital&#8217;s emergency department. Health officials are attempting to contact people on flight SQ281 from Singapore. Medical Officer of Health Dr Richard Vipond said measles is a serious and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":16749,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,222,208],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-latest-news","category-lifestyle"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16748"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16750,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16748\/revisions\/16750"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}