In an age when international travel has become more accessible than ever, the risk of global disease transmission is a pressing concern, particularly for those who have not been fully vaccinated.

This has been highlighted by an urgent health advisory issued following the diagnosis of a serious infectious disease in a young child who recently returned from overseas travel.

The situation underscores the critical role of public health measures in preventing the spread of contagious illnesses within the community.

Health authorities sounded the alarm after a recent health scare in Adelaide, where a one-year-old boy was diagnosed with measles after returning from an overseas trip with his family.

The boy—now in stable condition—and his family arrived in Sydney from Dubai on flight EK416 on June 11 and subsequently travelled to Adelaide on flight QF749.

Health authorities issued an urgent measles alert after a one-year-old Adelaide boy contracted the disease post-overseas travel. Credit: Unsplash

He was at Adelaide Airport on June 11, then went to SA Pathology and the Benson Radiology clinic at Modbury Hospital on June 13.

The boy visited a Salisbury Downs surgery on June 14 and the Women’s and Children’s Hospital on June 15.

According to a statement released by SA Health, ‘SA Health advises anyone who isn’t fully immunised, and particularly those who were in the locations at the times listed below, to be alert for symptoms over the next few weeks and to see a doctor if they become ill.’

SA Health urged anyone who was present at these locations to be alert for measles symptoms over the next few weeks:

• Women’s and Children’s Hospital Emergency Department, on Saturday, June 15, from 1:45 AM to 3:20 AM
• Premium Care Medical Practice, Shop 105B Hollywood Plaza, Salisbury Downs, on Wednesday, June 12, from 5:00 PM to 6:00 PM and Friday, June 14, from 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM
• Benson Radiology, located in Modbury Hospital, on Thursday, June 13, from 2:00 PM to 3:15 PM
• SA Pathology, located in Modbury Hospital, on Thursday, June 13, from 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM
• Adelaide Airport, on Tuesday, June 11, from 11:30 PM to Wednesday, June 12 at 12:30 AM
• Flight QF749 from Sydney to Adelaide on Tuesday, June 11
• Flight EK416 Dubai to Sydney, arriving on Tuesday, June 11

The symptoms of measles can include a cough, high fever, runny nose, and a large rash that spreads across the body.

Due to the highly infectious nature of measles, it is crucial for those who are not fully immunised to monitor their health closely and seek medical attention if they exhibit any signs of the disease.

Measles is a disease that once led to major epidemics every two to three years and caused 2.6 million deaths each year before the introduction of the measles vaccine in 1963.

However, complacency can lead to a resurgence, as evidenced by the six recorded cases in South Australia this year, compared to only three last year.

Most cases in Australia are linked to international visitors or returning residents who have not received two doses of the vaccine.

The recent measles diagnosis in Adelaide is not an isolated incident.

Just last month, Melbourne Airport experienced a similar health scare when another case of measles was reported, triggering yet another urgent health alert.

This back-to-back occurrence highlights the persistent threat of measles. It underscores the importance of vigilance and timely medical intervention to prevent the further spread of this highly contagious disease.

Key Takeaways

• An urgent measles warning was issued after a one-year-old Adelaide boy contracted the disease following overseas travel.
• Health authorities advised anyone who isn't fully immunised and had visited the listed exposure sites to be alert for symptoms.
• Measles is a highly contagious disease with symptoms including cough, fever, runny nose, and rash; vaccination is the most effective prevention.
• This case brings the total recorded measles cases in South Australia to six for the year, with most Australian cases originating from international travel.

Have you or your loved ones been affected by the recent measles warning? Do you have concerns about vaccination? Join the conversation in the comments below and share your experiences and thoughts with our community.

 

[Veggiepatch]

That's because they have got smart and wise to the corruption of the vax manufacturers and the fact there is a direct correlation between the increase in childhood vaccines and autism!

You have lost all credibility with this post. You are now entering territory of which you have NO idea. Ever heard of disgraced "Doctor" Andrew Wakefield? The clown who concocted this crap back in 1998. He alleged that a component of the triple MMR vaccine, namely a organomercury based preservative, Thimerosal (Ethyl(2-mercaptobenzoato-(2-)-O,S) mercurate(1-) sodium) was responsible. It was been erroneously banned in the mid 2000s from vaccines.

For you information dimwit, I have worked with many hundreds of children, adolescents and adults with autism and associated "disorders" over a 20 year career in disability. There is no greater incidence of autistic related conditions and the administration of childhood vaccines than those who never had the vaccine. Take the American Amish community, for example. The Amish are well known for their disdain for most medical interventions, including childhood vaccines. Guess what? The incidence of autism, et al, is NO greater OR less than the general population.

I could go on for hours citing ADADEMIC studies rather than alternative lifestyle stoner misinformation.

 

[DLHM]

You have lost all credibility with this post. You are now entering territory of which you have NO idea. Ever heard of disgraced "Doctor" Andrew Wakefield? The clown who concocted this crap back in 1998. He alleged that a component of the triple MMR vaccine, namely a organomercury based preservative, Thimerosal (Ethyl(2-mercaptobenzoato-(2-)-O,S) mercurate(1-) sodium) was responsible. It was been erroneously banned in the mid 2000s from vaccines.

For you information dimwit, I have worked with many hundreds of children, adolescents and adults with autism and associated "disorders" over a 20 year career in disability. There is no greater incidence of autistic related conditions and the administration of childhood vaccines than those who never had the vaccine. Take the American Amish community, for example. The Amish are well known for their disdain for most medical interventions, including childhood vaccines. Guess what? The incidence of autism, et al, is NO greater OR less than the general population.

I could go on for hours citing ADADEMIC studies rather than alternative lifestyle stoner misinformation.

Well said @Veggiepatch!

 

[NotAfraid]

Go home! You are definitely drunk or off your tits on illicit drugs.

Nimbin is missing their village idiot!

Wow...that's the best you could come up with. You have the audacity to call them a village idiot yet you offer no real information or debate? Ha...I think it is you who might be suffering the perils of evil things or maybe had one too many jabs

 

[NotAfraid]

Well said @Veggiepatch!

My, my you have a bad temper DLHM...you really like to throw around insults.

 

[Scaveola]

Sounds like youre paid big pharma shill or someone who has not being paying attention to the stats that PROVE this rubbish is not only ineffective, is NOT a true vaccine and is responsible for many more deaths worldwide that it ever saved which was ZERO! Antivaxxers KNOW the truth about this garbage. If you're a 'Gp' as you claim (probably a BOT!) then you are a danger to society. thoroughly brainwashed it seems.

I’ve been a family GP for 45 years. I don’t know why people fall for this anti vaxxer nonsense. It’s all posted to make money out of vulnerable people and spread mad ideas.

 

[Scaveola]

Sounds like youre paid big pharma shill or someone who has not being paying attention to the stats that PROVE this rubbish is not only ineffective, is NOT a true vaccine and is responsible for many more deaths worldwide that it ever saved which was ZERO! Antivaxxers KNOW the truth about this garbage. If you're a 'Gp' as you claim (probably a BOT!) then you are a danger to society. thoroughly brainwashed it seems.

GPs don’t get paid anything by ‘Big Pharma ‘ that’s another bit of false information That gets circulated.

 

[Veggiepatch]

Wow...that's the best you could come up with. You have the audacity to call them a village idiot yet you offer no real information or debate? Ha...I think it is you who might be suffering the perils of evil things or maybe had one too many jabs

Are you another victim of psychotropic drugs prescribed from your witchdoctor? YOU have no idea what or who you are dealing with. Been on this site for less than a few hours and YOU think YOU know everything. You are nothing more than an old school "sock puppet".

Go home to Trippytown. Just east of Dopesville. If you can crawl....

 

[DLHM]

My, my you have a bad temper DLHM...you really like to throw around insults.

It’s obvious you have no idea what you’re talking about. Why don’t you try writing something relevant if you’re capable.

 

[Veggiepatch]

My, my you have a bad temper DLHM...you really like to throw around insults.

My bad temper will make me commit a heinous crime.

Maybe I'll swat a fly called @Not Afraid. Be scared, very, scared.

I will do it gently. With an anticholinesterase compound. You weevil!!

 

[Littleboy8]

My, my you have a bad temper DLHM...you really like to throw around insults.

new person you’ve been on here 2 minutes and your attacking people alreadygood way to make friends not.

 

[Knell]

Wow! And Wow by 3! Appalling and illegal commentary.

 

[Knell]

Cyberbullying and Threats

Penalties

The maximum penalties are terms of imprisonment of 3 years (menace, harass or cause offence), 5 years (standard aggravated offence – menace, harass or cause offence), 7 years (special aggravated offence – menace, harass or cause offence, 10 years (threat to kill), 7 years (threat to cause serious harm). The Federal Parliament has passed legislation which will increase the maximum penalty for some of these offences by the Online Safety (Transitional Provisions and Consequential Amendments) Act 2021 (Cth). Commencing on 24 January 2022 the maximum penalties are terms of imprisonment for 5 years (menace, harass or cause offence using a carriage service), 6 years for standard aggravated offence involving private sexual material.

 

[Veggiepatch]

Cyberbullying and Threats

Penalties

The maximum penalties are terms of imprisonment of 3 years (menace, harass or cause offence), 5 years (standard aggravated offence – menace, harass or cause offence), 7 years (special aggravated offence – menace, harass or cause offence, 10 years (threat to kill), 7 years (threat to cause serious harm). The Federal Parliament has passed legislation which will increase the maximum penalty for some of these offences by the Online Safety (Transitional Provisions and Consequential Amendments) Act 2021 (Cth). Commencing on 24 January 2022 the maximum penalties are terms of imprisonment for 5 years (menace, harass or cause offence using a carriage service), 6 years for standard aggravated offence involving private sexual material.

Seems to be working a treat in the case of eSafety Commissioner v X Corp (formerly Twitter) [2024] FCA 499.

Reference: https://www.hrlc.org.au/human-rights-case-summaries/2024/06/19/esafety-commissioner-v-x-corp

 

[Knell]

Seems to be working a treat in the case of eSafety Commissioner v X Corp (formerly Twitter) [2024] FCA 499.

Reference: https://www.hrlc.org.au/human-rights-case-summaries/2024/06/19/esafety-commissioner-v-x-corp

Cannot be bothered reading however if you and others think it is ok to threaten harm and bully people by such speech, so be it. Most reasonable people in society would consider it disgraceful and criminally unhinged.

 

[BruceC]

Yeh you know those d/head Anti Vaxers

Of cause anybody who doesn’t have the same beliefs as you is a dickhead or Anti Vaxer.
I know of families who have not vaccinated their kids against measles and their kids have never had measles.
My three kids were all vaccinated against Measles but one still got it.
By the way dickhead is spelt dickhead not d/head.

 

[Veggiepatch]

Of cause anybody who doesn’t have the same beliefs as you is a dickhead or Anti Vaxer.
I know of families who have not vaccinated their kids against measles and their kids have never had measles.
My three kids were all vaccinated against Measles but one still got it.
By the way dickhead is spelt dickhead not d/head.

I worked with a young male adult who experienced the most profound case of autism I have ever seen.

He was originally from the Northern Rivers in NSW, his parents lived in a commune and he did not have ANY childhood vaccinations.

Yet he ended up severely autistic. Do you still believe that vaccinations cause all sort of medical and associated conditions?

A European study was conducted and these are the findings. Might make disturbing reading for you.

The study reviewed records of 537303 children born in Denmark between January 1991 and December 1998, representing almost 100% of children born in that period. Of these children 440655 had been vaccinated. Records were retrieved from three sources: the unique identification number assigned to each child at birth; MMR vaccination data reported to the National Board of Health by general practitioners, who give all MMR vaccinations and are reimbursed for their reports; and diagnoses of autism recorded in the Danish Psychiatric Central Registry. Only specialists in child psychiatry diagnose autism and related conditions.

The study considered the children's sex, weight and gestational age at birth, and age at diagnosis of autism or of a related disorder; the socioeconomic status of the parents; and the mother's education.

The authors found that “There was no increase in the risk of autistic disorder or other autistic-spectrum disorders among vaccinated children as compared with unvaccinated children (adjusted relative risk of autistic disorder, 0.92; 95% confidence interval, 0.68 to 1.24; adjusted relative risk of other autistic-spectrum disorders, 0.83; 95% confidence interval, 0.65 to 1.07).”

Source: British Medical Journal. 2002 Nov 16; 325(7373): 1134. MMR vaccine is not linked with autism, says Danish study, Janice Hopkins Tanne
Accessible through https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1124634/

 

[Aussie all the Way]

Of cause anybody who doesn’t have the same beliefs as you is a dickhead or Anti Vaxer.
I know of families who have not vaccinated their kids against measles and their kids have never had measles.
My three kids were all vaccinated against Measles but one still got it.
By the way dickhead is spelt dickhead not d/head.

Gee Bruce how did I survive without you telling me how to spell and everything else I should think. And I know of families that have not had kids vaccinated and they got very sick from those childhood diseases that should NOT be around anymore go figure D/Head.

 

[BruceC]

Gee Bruce how did I survive without you telling me how to spell and everything else I should think. And I know of families that have not had kids vaccinated and they got very sick from those childhood diseases that should NOT be around anymore go figure D/Head.

Hey Pal.
as I said my vaccinated kid got very sick also!

 

[BruceC]

I worked with a young male adult who experienced the most profound case of autism I have ever seen.

He was originally from the Northern Rivers in NSW, his parents lived in a commune and he did not have ANY childhood vaccinations.

Yet he ended up severely autistic. Do you still believe that vaccinations cause all sort of medical and associated conditions?

A European study was conducted and these are the findings. Might make disturbing reading for you.

The study reviewed records of 537303 children born in Denmark between January 1991 and December 1998, representing almost 100% of children born in that period. Of these children 440655 had been vaccinated. Records were retrieved from three sources: the unique identification number assigned to each child at birth; MMR vaccination data reported to the National Board of Health by general practitioners, who give all MMR vaccinations and are reimbursed for their reports; and diagnoses of autism recorded in the Danish Psychiatric Central Registry. Only specialists in child psychiatry diagnose autism and related conditions.

The study considered the children's sex, weight and gestational age at birth, and age at diagnosis of autism or of a related disorder; the socioeconomic status of the parents; and the mother's education.

The authors found that “There was no increase in the risk of autistic disorder or other autistic-spectrum disorders among vaccinated children as compared with unvaccinated children (adjusted relative risk of autistic disorder, 0.92; 95% confidence interval, 0.68 to 1.24; adjusted relative risk of other autistic-spectrum disorders, 0.83; 95% confidence interval, 0.65 to 1.07).”

Source: British Medical Journal. 2002 Nov 16; 325(7373): 1134. MMR vaccine is not linked with autism, says Danish study, Janice Hopkins Tanne
Accessible through https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1124634/

I have no idea what this has to do with it!
I simply told “Aussie all the way” to stop blaming Anti Vader’s for everything.
Also stated that all my 3 Kids were/are vaccinated but one still got sick from Measles.
I do though believe that the Covid vaccine has caused many 1000’s of deaths and that is why. One brand has been withdrawn from use.

 

[Aussie all the Way]

Hey Pal.
as I said my vaccinated kid got very sick also!

HEY PAL
I"M JUST POINTING OUT THE OBVIOUS, IT GOES BOTH WAYS, DAH, D/HEAD.