A female attends her local GP clinic. She has developed a fever and cough. She has been more tired in the past two days and thinks her eyes look red.
The GP takes a thorough history and notes that she returned from Bali five days ago. On checking her immunisation record through the Australian Immunisation Register, the GP also notes that she had only one MMR vaccine in childhood. The second measles dose was added into the National Immunisation Program in 1994, four years after her birth. She had not had the catch-up vaccine.
The GP remembers the Chief Health Officer alert regarding recent cases of measles in Melbourne, particularly in people returned from overseas, and consults the Measles pathway.
