Epidemics

New Zealanders have battled Covid-19 for more than two years, but if you think it's the first time disease has knocked us around, well, this one's for you. Epidemics have long been part of our story. 

Professor Raina McIntyre leads the Biosecurity Research Program at the Kirby Institute at the University of New South Wales in Sydney. One of her key research areas is in epidemic responses to… Audio

Several Pacific countries have taken heavy-handed measures in an effort to stop a new and largely unknown coronavirus from taking hold in a region already strained by several severe epidemics. Koro… Audio

A mass vaccination program is being considered for Samoa after a measles epidemic broke out a month ago. Audio

NZ researchers are urging a nationwide immunisation catch-up programme for people in their teens, twenties and thirties to combat frequent measles epidemics. Video, Audio