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Measles deadliness and notices from the DHB Health Officers

Erika Whittome made this Official Information request to Health New Zealand

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From: Erika Whittome

Dear Health New Zealand,

There was an article Mon 27 Oct 2025 article on the One News sharing link here
https://www.1news.co.nz/2025/10/27/two-m...

Please provide information on the Measles.

1, Kindly share the notices from the DHB public health officer of medical officer of health for this particular “stay home order” in Wellington.
2. Kindly share any other public health notices on measles in the past 4 weeks .
3. Kindly share the infection fatality rate for the measles . Health NZ / Ministry of health experts were quoted in One News program
“Experts stressing that measles is far more deadly than Covid 19”.
The health experts appearing on this One News segment were:
Dr Sharon Sime National Public Health Service
Dr Nikki Turner of National immunization service

4. Kindly share the infection fatality rate for Covid 19, which was used as the comparator by the experts in the above statement "more deadly than covid 19". The deadliness of a disease is measured with its infection fatality rate.
5. Kindly share the last recorded measles death (primary cause of death) in New Zealand according to the notifiable disease to the Medical Officer of Health.

Yours faithfully,

Erika Whittome

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