An urgent health warning has been issued after a traveller with measles landed in Melbourne, visiting a busy McDonalds and multiple high-traffic shops along the Great Ocean Road. The returning traveller was infectious and arrived from overseas on Tuesday June 25, before visiting a McDonalds near the airport, toy shops and grocery stores in the southwest of Victoria. It is the 11th case of measles in Victoria this year.
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Anyone born during or since 1966 who does not have documented evidence of having received two doses of a measles-containing vaccine, or does not have documented evidence of immunity, is at risk of measles. Unvaccinated infants are at particularly high risk of contracting measles. June 24 – Departed from Singapore Changi Airport at 8:10pm June 25 – Arrived Melbourne International Airport , Terminal 2 at 5:25am June 25 – McDonalds , 173 Mickleham Road, Westmeadows (near the airport), from 7:00am to 9:00am June 25 – Coles , Colac from 11:00am to 12:00pm June 26 – Toyworld Warrnambool , 3:00pm to 3:50pm June 27 – Friendly Grocer , Port Campbell, 11:00am to 11:40am June 28 – Port Campbell .