Health Alerts

Australia: Flu, Measles, Hep A. This year’s bumper Flu season saw 212,365 (as at 16.10) laboratory confirmed notifications of Influenza for 2017, nearly 100,000 of those in NSW and 52,000 in QLD of which 5,500 in QLD required hospitalisation. A flu summit held in Brisbane (18.10.17) saw the announcement from QLD Health Minister Cameron Dick that $1.3 million would be provided to help diagnose influenza and other infections faster and ensure future flu seasons are easier for the state's hospitals to manage. Read more

NSW Health urges everyone aged 20 -50 years to see their GP to have a measles mumps and rubella vaccine (free up to the age 50), after the 29th notification of measles has been confirmed in the State. The latest person to have been confirmed to have measles is the fifth case connected to the Sutherland Shire Read more

A hepatitis A warning has been issued for patrons who have dined at the Sokyo Restaurant in Sydney. The warning comes after a food handler was diagnosed with the disease contracted overseas. Communicable diseases director at NSW Health, Dr Vicky Sheppeard warned diners that they may have been exposed to the disease if they attended the restaurant during the evening of September 20-24, 26, 27 and 29, October 2 and October 4-8. Read more