A plan to find and vaccinate hundreds of thousands of young New Zealanders who may not have measles immunity is due to be laid out by the government today.
Doctors say if they had acted earlier the country may not have had the outbreak last year which saw hundreds of people hospitalised - and the disease spread to Samoa where it was deadly.
There have been warnings for years that the gap in vaccination rates for 15 to 30 year olds makes New Zealand vulnerable.
The leader of the Pacific GP network, Api Talemaitoga says there was also a lack of urgency in the acute vaccination response to try to contain last year's outbreak.
He told health correspondent Rowan Quinn it's frustrating it has taken so long to for the nationwide catch up campaign.
