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Please also refer to
NSW Health media releases
for important public health information and warnings.
December 2018
Measles alert - Sydney CBD and Eastern Suburbs
[29 December 2018]
Legionnaires' disease - gardener's alert
[14 December 2018]
November 2018
Legionnaires' disease - Sydney CBD area [30 November 2018]
Media release
Clinician alert
Whooping cough alert media release
[21 November 2018]
Measles alert - November - South Eastern Sydney
[5 November 2018]
September 2018
Measles alert - September - South Western Sydney
[26 September 2018]
Legionnaires' disease - Lidcombe Area
Clinician alert
[21 September 2018]
Western Sydney LHD media release - update
[22 September 2018]
Measles alert - September - Nepean Blue Mountains
[14 September 2018] - updated 20 September 2018
Salmonella outbreak linked to eggs
[7 September 2018]
August 2018
Q fever drought warning media release
[31 August 2018]
Measles alerts:
Coffs Harbour and Woolgoolga
[31 August 2018]
Sydney and snowfields
[23 August 2018]
Media release
[23 August 2018]
Warning about increase in antibiotic resistant
Shigella
[17 August 2018]
Warning to patients of a Haberfield dental practice
[8 August 2018]
July 2018
Listeriosis - recall of imported frozen vegetable products
[9 Jul 2018]
April 2018
Hepatitis A linked to imported frozen pomegranate
[6 April 2018]
Hepatitis A outbreak linked to frozen pomegranate media release
[6 April 2018]
Information for GPs
[7 April 2018]
March 2018
Fifth measles case diagnosed in NSW
- travellers urged to vaccinate [10 March 2018]
Children's Hospital Westmead, Fairfield and Liverpool media release
- [29 March 2018]
Sydney CBD and Bankstown media release
- [23 March 2018]
February 2018
Listeria outbreak linked to rockmelons
Legionnaires' disease cluster investigation - Castle Hill [13 Feb 2018]
Media release
Frequently asked questions
(FAQs)
Clinician alert
January 2018
Infection control breaches in a Sydney dental practice - Cronulla Dental Surgery
[22 Jan 2018].
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