To avoid measles outbreaks, it's recommended 95 per cent of the population is vaccinated against the highly infectious disease. 

But it can be difficult to reach and maintain such a high number, and since the COVID-19 pandemic rates have been falling. 

Guest/s

• Professor Peter McIntyre, former director of National Centre of Immunisation Research and Surveillance for Vaccine Preventable Diseases now at the University of Otago

References

• Impact of Australia's No Jab, No Pay policy on vaccination uptake – a before-after study in two national birth cohorts