Queensland Health has issued a measles alert after a girl who travelled to Brisbane on an international flight was diagnosed.
The case – the state’s 37th this year – was detected after the girl arrived on Air Niugini flight PX25 from Port Moresby in Papua New Guinea on Monday last week and presented to the Mater Children’s Hospital on Saturday.
Communicable Diseases Unit senior medical officer Dr Alun Richards said the girl had also attended two general practices, one in Chermside shopping centre, and the other in Albany Creek in the past week.
He said the surgeries and the Mater hospital were contacting patients who may have been exposed.