Afternoon Edition: 27 October 2024

The Afternoon Edition of News Fix for 27 October 2024, straight from the Newstalk ZB newsroom - bringing you everything you need to know in news, politics, business, entertainment and sport.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
From the News Talk's Edby Newsroom. This is Newsfects. In
this update, help may be on the way for people
who have herpes. A clinical trials investigating a potential new
medicine designed to help prevent recurrences of genital herpes. It's
estimated eighty percent of New Zealanders have at least one
of the viruses that can cause the infection. New Zealand

(00:24):
Clinical Research spokesperson Professor Ed Gain says the current medication
is a daily tablet. We think this new treatment, which
will also be a tablet, can be taken much less
often day, once a week, or even once a month.
The increasing creep of cameras and concerns about the motives
of people using them are causing more people to seek
advice from the Privacy Commissioner. The office says of the

(00:46):
top five questions people raise on its ask us database
over the past year, can I record someone without telling
them tops the list. Privacy Commissioner Michael Webster says it's
good people are checking the rules because it shows increasing
awareness of privacy rights, but on the.

Speaker 2 (01:02):
Flip side, it's a real worry. Its reflects I think
the increasing number of people being filmed without their knowledge
or conceive.

Speaker 1 (01:09):
The bike. Mental health campaigner Mike King has been touring
New Zealand on has been stolen. Mister King says the
electric Ubco bike was taken from outside a shop in
Totonga this morning while he was on his IAM Hope
Climate tour. Through social media, he's offering a five hundred
dollars reward for the bike's return. Mister King says he's
already traveled over four eight hundred kilometers on the IAM

(01:33):
Climate Hope Tour. Surgery outcomes are improving despite an aging
population and more complex operations being performed. Updated data through
to the end of December twenty twenty three show overall
surgical death rates here are not increasing. Otago University Associate
Professor Elizabeth Dennett says our figures also stack up globally.

Speaker 2 (01:55):
We are very comparable to results from overseays, so surgery
and New Zealand does a safer sister in places like
Australia and the United Kingdom and the USA.

Speaker 1 (02:04):
That's news. In sport, Kiwei's assistant coach, Nathan Kylis expects
James Fisher Harris to lead by example when they play
the Kangaroos tonight in christ Church in the Pacific Championships.
Kyless explains what makes Fisher Harris a special leader.

Speaker 2 (02:20):
The amount of work that he puts into his game,
ultra professional. He's won four Grand Finals in a row
and he's still out there working as hard as he
did when he first came into camp. He's a guy
that goes about his business pretty quietly. Don't say two much.
I just want to get out there and do it and.

Speaker 1 (02:34):
Go to work kickoffs. At five past six, Jordi Barrett
has been declared fit to go, in a major boost
for the All Blacks as they head to London. The
second five had a knee injury playing Australia in Sydney
more than a month ago and was originally targeting an
appearance in the Japan Test in Yokohama. However, he was
sent on early to London and coach Scott Robertson says

(02:55):
Barrett is ready to go against England. That's sport. I'm
Joe Gilfillan. For more news, listen to News Talk set
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