Dr. Katherine Gibney

These are the reports that make us all very nervous about measles.

Yeah, that's right, yes. And particularly for young children. How serious are those? They seem scary. Yeah, I think they're scary rather than serious.

Do we have to? Does it lead to autism? No, definitely not. So that's been well and truly disproven and very carefully sort of disproven with lots of, you know, really great science.

It's not hype. It is the infection that you think of that is the most contagious virus that we know of. It's a big claim to fame.

Yeah, so they say that nine in ten people will be infected if they're exposed.

So, you know, at the beginning of COVID, it was sort of 1.5, 2.5. For flu, it's like 1 to 2. For measles, it's 12 to 18.

Yeah. So it's, you know, just on another scale.