New Zealand on alert for measles epidemic

The country's third largest city, Christchurch, is the most affected, and authorities acknowledge that the disease is spreading without restraint among the population at a time when there is lack of vaccines.

They warn that the cases may increase in the days and weeks ahead. Parents, says the Guardian “, are living in fear that their children can be affected by disease, generally, babies can take a measles vaccine when they're 12 months old, which means that babies are the most vulnerable to measles in Christchurch, where vaccines are missing.

I don't understand why we got to this point”, says a worried mother, Hayley Vogel.

The measles are growing worldwide, including wealthy nations like the United States or Germany, where there are parents who have abandoned their own vaccines for religious reasons or concerns that anti - measles, scythes, and ruboles, or, as the MMR is known, may cause autism.

Scientists reject such claims.