MELBOURNE - Thousands of vaccines are being delivered to health centres in New Zealand's Canterbury district, with a measles outbreak widening to 20 confirmed cases as health officials warned that the number is expected to rise over the coming days and weeks.
With Canterbury health centres running out of vaccines since the start of the outbreak in late February, 3,000 MMR vaccines had been brought by Sunday and 18,000 more are to be delivered to the region by Wednesday. The latest outbreak came from people who were thought not fully immunised. People are considered immune if they have received two doses of the MMR vaccine, have had a measles illness previously, or were born before 1969.
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