Meanings of contracting measles in English

Two Auckland women have lost their unborn babies after contracting measles.

Three of their five children have died after contracting measles.

Dr Sutton said anyone who was unvaccinated was at the highest risk of contracting measles.

An inmate at Mt Eden remand prison has been isolated after contracting measles on Saturday.

Fifty-three people have so far died in Samoa after contracting measles, many of them young children.

About 80 people who attended a party in Lower Hutt on Saturday are at risk of contracting measles.

To reduce the risk of contracting measles, for instance, the pamphlet recommends Vitamin A supplements instead of vaccination.

As of 2 December, 55 people have died in Samoa after contracting measles.

Checkpoint's Alex Perottet and Logan Church are in Samoa, where 39 people so far have died after contracting measles.

He had lost his sight to cataracts at 15; she lost hers after contracting measles at the age of five.

Makarita Liku's four-month-old son is recovering at home after he was admitted at Navua Hospital two weeks ago for contracting measles.

One team went about an hour's drive away to the seaside village of Manono-uta, where one baby died after contracting measles last week.

The National Centre for Immunisation Research (NCIRS) has also warned that those born between 1966 and 1994 are at greater risk of contracting measles.

Now the National Centre for Immunisation Research (NCIRS) has warned that those born between 1966 and 1994 are at greater risk of contracting measles.