Health Alerts

Three areas of South London have been added to the list of those with recent measles infections. Bromley, Croydon and Greenwich join West Yorkshire & West Midlands, Cheshire, Liverpool, Surrey and Greater Manchester in reporting cases, many of which are thought to be associated with the large outbreak in Europe. Read more. In the past week, air passengers who were infectious with measles passed through two airports in the US (New Jersey & Illinois) and one in Australia (Melbourne ex Dubai/Singapore). This has led to warnings for possible contacts to be on the alert for symptoms. And in the Ukraine, the death toll in the measles outbreak has reached two for this month alone among 1,275 cases to date. Low immunisation rates are believed to be responsible for the large numbers of infections – in 2017 there were nearly 5,000 cases with 5 deaths. Read more