Health Alerts

Australia: Vaccinations offered to students. Measles vaccinations have been offered to unimmunised students at a school in Perth, after one pupil returned from a holiday in Europe infected with the highly contagious virus. According to a news article, around half of the 200 enrolled students are unvaccinated, leading to fears of a widespread outbreak in that and associated communities. The European Centre for Disease Control (ECDC) update on the ongoing measles outbreak reveals that in the first seven months of this year, Romania reported 6,378 cases (& 34 deaths since Jan 2016), while Italy had 4,001 cases and the UK, 962. Read more