{"id":7539,"date":"2019-09-17T11:09:40","date_gmt":"2019-09-16T23:09:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesislink.aut.ac.nz\/?p=7539"},"modified":"2019-09-17T11:09:47","modified_gmt":"2019-09-16T23:09:47","slug":"measles-outbreak-what-you-need-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesislink.aut.ac.nz\/?p=7539","title":{"rendered":"Measles Outbreak: What You Need to Know"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>You may have heard about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/national\/health\/112441772\/auckland-measles-outbreak-latest-confirmed-cases-warnings-and-advice\">measles outbreak<\/a> in Auckland, which has so far reached almost 1,000 confirmed cases. There has been <strong>one confirmed case of an AUT student with measles.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Measles is one of the most contagious viral diseases known. Nine out of ten unprotected people who come into contact with an infected person will get sick. It&#8217;s important that we are all vigilant and check our immunity.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You are NOT IMMUNE and are at risk of getting measles if you were born after 1 January 1969 and have not had the MMR vaccine or previously had measles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can get a free MMR vaccine (measles, mumps, rubella) if you were born after 1 January 1969 and haven\u2019t already had two recorded doses. You can receive the vaccine by contacting your GP or medical practice. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you have measles, or might have been exposed to measles and are not immune, you need to notify AUT immediately on <strong>0800 AUT SAFE \u2013 0800 288 7233. <\/strong>You will also need to contact your GP. It&#8217;s important to do this by phone as you could potentially infect others by visiting your doctor or emergency department before seeking advice. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can call <strong>Healthline <\/strong>for measles advice on 0800 611 116. You can also use this service in languages other than English. Healthline has interpreters \u2013 when your call is answered, say you&#8217;d like an interpreter and the language you&#8217;d like to speak in. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may have heard about the measles outbreak in Auckland, which has so far reached almost 1,000 confirmed cases. There has been one confirmed case of an AUT student with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25632,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[46],"class_list":["post-7539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authentic","tag-aut"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p83npQ-1XB","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesislink.aut.ac.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesislink.aut.ac.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesislink.aut.ac.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesislink.aut.ac.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/25632"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesislink.aut.ac.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7539"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thesislink.aut.ac.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7545,"href":"https:\/\/thesislink.aut.ac.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7539\/revisions\/7545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesislink.aut.ac.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesislink.aut.ac.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesislink.aut.ac.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}