Measles alert issued after two new cases in returning travellers

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Sydney measles alert issued after two new cases in returning travellers

NSW residents are advised to vaccinate themselves against measles after two returning travellers have been diagnosed with the disease.

Both people diagnosed with the infection are aged in their 40s. They bring the total number of measles notifications for NSW to 37 this year, compared to 13 notifications for the same period last year, data from NSW Health shows.Both NSW residents, returning from South America and New Zealand respectively, remain isolated in hospital for management of complications from their infections.

Dr Vicky Sheppeard, Director Communicable Diseases NSW Health, said that after their return to Australia both cases visited locations in Sydney while infectious on August 15 and 16, including International Towers Sydney in Barangaroo and Westfield shopping centre in Hornsby.“Anyone who was in the same locations as the cases [on these dates] should be alert for signs and symptoms of measles until September 8,” Dr Sheppeard said.

 

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