Infectious diseases, NSW: November 1999

Abstract

September 1999 was the first month since 1991, when the new Public Health Act’s enhanced notification requirements began, that there were no reports of measles in NSW. (It is also most likely that this is the first month since colonial times that measles has not occurred in this state.) Indeed, the last laboratory-confirmed case was reported in July (two unconfirmed cases were reported in August).