Extract from The Guardian
Infections come as NSW health department issues 15th measles warning for the year
Two babies with measles probably acquired the infection in Sydney, health authorities say.
New South Wales Health on Tuesday issued its 15th measles warning for the year after two babies too young to be vaccinated became infected in mid-March.
An eight-month-old likely contracted the disease in the Haymarket area and was infectious while visiting a Strathfield Korean restaurant on 26 March, a Hurstville cafe on 27 March and St George hospital emergency department on 30 March.
The other baby, aged 11 months, probably caught the disease in Eastwood before visiting shopping centres in Eastwood, Castle Hill and Kellyville in the last week of March.
NSW recorded 46 measles cases between January 2017 and November 2018.New South Wales Health on Tuesday issued its 15th measles warning for the year after two babies too young to be vaccinated became infected in mid-March.
An eight-month-old likely contracted the disease in the Haymarket area and was infectious while visiting a Strathfield Korean restaurant on 26 March, a Hurstville cafe on 27 March and St George hospital emergency department on 30 March.
The other baby, aged 11 months, probably caught the disease in Eastwood before visiting shopping centres in Eastwood, Castle Hill and Kellyville in the last week of March.
The health department says maintaining high rates of measles immunisation within the community reduces the risk of measles being imported by travellers and then spread locally.
“Herd immunity provides protection to those unable to be vaccinated such as infants and people with weakened immune systems,” the NSW Health communicable diseases director, Dr Vicky Sheppeard, said in a statement.
The measles vaccine is free for anyone born since 1966
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