By Staff Reporter
By Ed Bourke, The Age
A second measles alert has been issued in as many days, this time for a Point Cook school, a burger restaurant and a kebab shop, after a teenage girl contracted the disease.
The Health Department has issued an alert for anyone who may have come into contact with the girl, who recently returned from a trip to Asia.
The department would not name the school the girl attends, but said all staff and students had been contacted about the potential risk.
The teenage girl caught public buses to and from school, and also dined at Between Two Buns at Hoppers Crossing and Urban Grill at Point Cook.
Anyone who caught a bus in the Point Cook area on February 4 to February 6, before 9.30am or after 2.30am, has been urged to remain alert for signs of measles.
The same advice has been issued for anyone who dined at the burger restaurant and kebab shop between 6pm and 7.30pm on Friday, February 8.
The girl is now recovering at home.
Health authorities say the case is unrelated to the earlier diagnosis of a man who had worked in Southbank last week before catching the Skybus to Melbourne Airport and boarding a Virgin flight to Perth. However, the man had also recently returned from a trip to Asia.
The cases are among a string of measles infections in Melbourne over the past year, and authorities have reminded people to check their vaccination records, especially before travelling overseas.
A free measles-mumps-rubella vaccine is available from GPs and some pharmacies for adults born after 1966 who do not have two documented doses of a measles vaccine.
People who were at the following locations are advised to be on alert for symptoms:
- Monday, February 4 to Wednesday, February 6: Public bus routes within the Point Cook area, before 9.30am and after 2.30pm
- Friday, February 8: Between Two Buns (B2B) at Hoppers Crossing, between 6pm and 7pm
- Friday, February 8: Urban Grill at Point Cook, between 7pm and 7.30pm
The Health Department also warned people who were at the following locations to be on alert for symptoms:
- Monday, February 4 to Wednesday, February 6 (8am-8.30pm): Southbank Boulevard, Southbank
- Thursday, February 7 (8am-2.30pm): Southbank Boulevard, Southbank
- Thursday, February 7 (3pm-4pm): Skybus, Southern Cross Station to Melbourne Airport
- Thursday, February 7 (3.30pm-6.15pm): Melbourne Airport, Terminal 3
- Thursday, February 7 (5.35pm-9.50pm AEST): Virgin Australia Flight VA691 to Perth
