Doctors are urging Australian's to keep an eye out for measle like symptoms, with yet another case reported on our shores. 9News
Dr Sheppeard stressed the importance of adults up to 53 years of age checking their vaccination history before travelling overseas.
Warnings have also been issued over locations the two people diagnosed yesterday visited back in Australia. The next day they followed a similar routine on the trains and gym before heading to Barangaroo again. The data reflects the growing trend of outbreaks overseas, with the World Health Organisation revealing this week that the numbers infected with measles have tripled worldwide this year.
Until now, the focus has been on making sure babies and infants are immunised, but there are other age groups in Australia who could be slipping through the cracks, Raina MacIntyre, a professor of Infectious Diseases Epidemiology at the University of NSW told nine.com.au.To be fully immunised you need two doses of the measles-mumps-rubella vaccine.However, the second dose of the vaccine wasn't routinely given until the 1990s.
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