October 2, 2025 • 4 mins
Meningitis campaigners Ged and Claire Rushton joined Luke to chat about the Foundation and how our donations at the Hammers game tomorrow afternoon help support the wonderful work they do
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hammers at the Showgrounds hosting North Otago the final round
of the regular season. The Old Golds will be hungry
for this in a competition that couldn't be tighter. There's
just three points separating second to seventh on the table.
North Otago currently third with five straight wins. A win
tomorrow would lock up a top four for them, but
also see them going home with the hand and shields,
(00:21):
which naturally we're keen to prevent. If that wasn't enough
to get you along, it's also the charity game and
this is in support of the Meningitis Foundation, and they
are so blessed to have the strong support of Jed
and Clear Rushton, a couple of locals who dropped by
the studio to talk why this one is near and
(00:43):
dear to them.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Of course, we lost Courtney in twenty fourteen and then
a few years later after that we got involved with
the foundation. So we're just about raising awareness of meningitis
because one of the things that's prominent in all cases
meningitis is that people are simply not aware of the disease.
So we're pretty pretty active on that and we're lobbying
government to have everyone vaccinated for free by the time
(01:06):
they leave school.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
So we're we're making a.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Bit of progress, but got a wall you way to go.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
There's been some skiers lately, a clear hairs year.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
We had just recently well five cases over five weeks,
so that is a bit unusual. We've never actually, probably
in the ten years we've been involved in the foundation,
actually had that many.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
What makes this so concerning You carry.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
It through your noses, through and nasal passages, and then
it's spread through contact. It can be you know, sneezing.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
So much law and drinks flu covid much like flu.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
It's spreads much like that.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
So yeah, it's far more nasty though right for far.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
More nasty and very hard to actually to diagnose. It's
quite hard because it does present something sometimes like the
flu or a bad hangover and young people as well,
so that's the hard thing. So and vaccination is the
only way to actually prevent prevent the disease.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
We've developed QR codes that people can download onto their
phone so that the symptoms look But I mean, you've
just got to seek medical advice because it is just
not worth second guessing. You know, this disease can kill
more than twenty four hours. So a lot of the
other countries around the world have lower rates of meningitis
than us simply because they vaccinate. This is a preventable
(02:23):
disease and we shouldn't.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Be so the vaccine, it is readily available. Like if
we're the parent of a child, a teenager in particular,
you can actually go and ask for this at any time, right, you.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
Can, You actually can. So there's two vaccines. There's one
which is men B, which protects against the B strain,
and then there's another one which is acw Y, which
protects against those four strains. So you can actually ask
your doctor or health health provider for those vaccines. MenB
(02:59):
is fully funded now for all infants under the age
of five, but we also would like to see that
doctors also recommend that infants can also get ACE, the ac.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
W Y turbo charged one, that's the upsize.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
Yeah, and of course you're a young adolescent, so our
thirteen to twenty five year olds is a second high
risk group, so they also should have both vaccines.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Yeah, right, Why is that? Why are they sort of
high risk?
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Well, it's just the way that young people actually socialize.
I think it's the way that they live because they're
burning the candle at both ends. So we don't know
why that isn't risk group, but it is. And you know,
particularly concerning that four to five times more likely the
Marriam Pacifica population are to get meningitis. So you know
(03:53):
the recent case of the sixteen year old in christ Church,
he was from Shirley Boys. None of those kids at
that school qualified for a free vaccination. No one at
Ashburton College qualifies for a free vaccination. So that's why
we're calling the government out on this and asking them
why is that. Why do they actually just think that
because you're privileged enough to go to a boarding school
(04:16):
or a wholes of residents, you should qualify for a
free vaccine
Hammers at the Showgrounds hosting North Otago the final round
of the regular season. The Old Golds will be hungry
for this in a competition that couldn't be tighter. There's
just three points separating second to seventh on the table.
North Otago currently third with five straight wins. A win
tomorrow would lock up a top four for them, but
also see them going home with the hand and shields,
(00:21):
which naturally we're keen to prevent. If that wasn't enough
to get you along, it's also the charity game and
this is in support of the Meningitis Foundation, and they
are so blessed to have the strong support of Jed
and Clear Rushton, a couple of locals who dropped by
the studio to talk why this one is near and
(00:43):
dear to them.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Of course, we lost Courtney in twenty fourteen and then
a few years later after that we got involved with
the foundation. So we're just about raising awareness of meningitis
because one of the things that's prominent in all cases
meningitis is that people are simply not aware of the disease.
So we're pretty pretty active on that and we're lobbying
government to have everyone vaccinated for free by the time
(01:06):
they leave school.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
So we're we're making a.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Bit of progress, but got a wall you way to go.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
There's been some skiers lately, a clear hairs year.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
We had just recently well five cases over five weeks,
so that is a bit unusual. We've never actually, probably
in the ten years we've been involved in the foundation,
actually had that many.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
What makes this so concerning You carry.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
It through your noses, through and nasal passages, and then
it's spread through contact. It can be you know, sneezing.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
So much law and drinks flu covid much like flu.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
It's spreads much like that.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
So yeah, it's far more nasty though right for far.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
More nasty and very hard to actually to diagnose. It's
quite hard because it does present something sometimes like the
flu or a bad hangover and young people as well,
so that's the hard thing. So and vaccination is the
only way to actually prevent prevent the disease.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
We've developed QR codes that people can download onto their
phone so that the symptoms look But I mean, you've
just got to seek medical advice because it is just
not worth second guessing. You know, this disease can kill
more than twenty four hours. So a lot of the
other countries around the world have lower rates of meningitis
than us simply because they vaccinate. This is a preventable
(02:23):
disease and we shouldn't.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Be so the vaccine, it is readily available. Like if
we're the parent of a child, a teenager in particular,
you can actually go and ask for this at any time, right, you.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
Can, You actually can. So there's two vaccines. There's one
which is men B, which protects against the B strain,
and then there's another one which is acw Y, which
protects against those four strains. So you can actually ask
your doctor or health health provider for those vaccines. MenB
(02:59):
is fully funded now for all infants under the age
of five, but we also would like to see that
doctors also recommend that infants can also get ACE, the ac.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
W Y turbo charged one, that's the upsize.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
Yeah, and of course you're a young adolescent, so our
thirteen to twenty five year olds is a second high
risk group, so they also should have both vaccines.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Yeah, right, Why is that? Why are they sort of
high risk?
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Well, it's just the way that young people actually socialize.
I think it's the way that they live because they're
burning the candle at both ends. So we don't know
why that isn't risk group, but it is. And you know,
particularly concerning that four to five times more likely the
Marriam Pacifica population are to get meningitis. So you know
(03:53):
the recent case of the sixteen year old in christ Church,
he was from Shirley Boys. None of those kids at
that school qualified for a free vaccination. No one at
Ashburton College qualifies for a free vaccination. So that's why
we're calling the government out on this and asking them
why is that. Why do they actually just think that
because you're privileged enough to go to a boarding school
(04:16):
or a wholes of residents, you should qualify for a
free vaccine
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