​Please also refer to the NSW Health media releases page for important public health information and warnings.

May 2020

• Rare infection from possum scratch prompts warning [20 May 2020]
• Reminder to clean cooling towers to manage exposure to bacteria causing legionnaires' disease [18 May 2020]

February 2020

Measles alerts (no longer current)

• Media releases:
  • Infant traveller latest measles case (SESLHD) [6 February 2020]
  • Measles alert for Western Sydney (WSLHD) [5 February 2020]
  • Measles alert for Camperdown (SLHD) [4 February 2020]
  • Measles alert after new case confirmed (SESLHD) [02 February 2020]

January 2020​

Measles alerts (no longer current)

• Media releases:
• Be alert for measles symptoms (SWSLHD)[22 January 2020 
• Free vaccine uptake urged following two more locally acquired cases [16 January 2020]
• Another locally-acquired measles case [10 January 2020]
• Five measles cases acquired in Sydney [04 January 2020]
• Measles alert following second case in Sydney [03 January 2020]
• Measles alert after case diagnosed in Sydney [01 January 2020].
• Clinician alerts:
  • General Practitioners, Emergency Departments, and
    Community Pharmacists [09 January 2020].