Urgent measles warning as a woman and baby contract the disease before visiting a string of tourist attractions, shopping centres and Sydney Airport
- Hundreds told to look for measles symptoms after two people contract disease
- One woman developed measles after Bali to Sydney flight on Qantas flight QF44
- Health officials advised those on flight to check for symptoms until March 16
- Sydney baby also developed disease after arriving home from the Philippines
Bali holidaymakers and visitors to the Sydney Opera House are among thousands urged to look out for measles symptoms after a young woman and infant contracted the disease.
In one case, a woman aged in her 20s developed the measles rash after arriving in Sydney from Bali on Qantas flight QF44 about 6.30am on February 21.
Health officials are advising those on the flight, in the Sydney international terminal and visitors to the Opera House later that day to remain on the lookout for measles signs and symptoms until March 16.
Bali holidaymakers and visitors to the Sydney Opera House are among hundreds urged to look out for measles symptoms after a young woman and infant contracted the disease (stock image)
A Sydney baby - too young to receive their routine measles vaccine - also developed the disease after arriving home from the Philippines.
While infectious, the infant visited Macquarie Shopping Centre on February 26 and March 2, My Health Macquarie on March 1 and 2 and Northern Beaches Hospital on March 3.
Those who were in the same places at the same times should look out for symptoms until March 21.
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The two new cases take the number of people infectious with the highly contagious disease in the state since Christmas to 19, New South Wales Health said on Monday.
Measles symptoms include fever, sore eyes and a cough followed by a red, blotchy rash on the head and neck that spreads to the rest of the body.
'If you develop symptoms please call ahead to your GP so you do not wait in the waiting room with other patients,' NSW Health communicable diseases branch director Vicky Sheppeard said in a statement on Monday.
Australia is currently at high risk of importing measles due to outbreaks of the disease in southeast Asia.
Health officials are advising those on the flight, in the Sydney international terminal and visitors to the Opera House later that day to remain on the lookout for measles signs and symptoms until March 16 (stock image)
