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Content last updated 25/08/2025

Gold Coast Primary Health Network works closely with local public health units and the Australian and State Government departments to help support health professionals access information and resources on infectious and communicable diseases.

Queensland STI Plan 2030

Mpox Updates

Clinical Resources

Current Gold Coast Public Health Alerts

Measles

14 August 2025: Gold Coast Public Health Unit has issued a Measles Alert for Gold Coast following a confirmed case of measles in an adult from Adelaide who travelled to the Gold Coast and back. More details here.

12 June 2025: Gold Coast Public Health Unit has issued a Measles Alert for Gold Coast and Brisbane following a confirmed case of measles in an adult on the Gold Coast who recently arrived from overseas. For further advice and details of affected locations, please see here.

Measles is a highly infectious viral illness that can cause serious complications. Protection against measles is given as a combined MMR (measles, mumps, rubella) or MMRV (measles, mumps, rubella, varicella) vaccine depending on age. For information, please visit the Queensland Health measles factsheet or download the Gold Coast Health measles factsheet.

Mpox

Since 1 January 2024, there have been 136 confirmed cases of mpox notified in Queensland, with cases being identified on the Gold Coast. For more information click here.

Pertussis (Whooping Cough)

Continues to circulate in the Gold Coast and Queensland community and it is important to ensure children remain up to date with their immunisations and adults are up to date with their boosters, particularly pregnant women and adults that are around infants and/or pregnant women. More information on whooping cough or the vaccine.

Communicable diseases and control guidelines | Queensland Health

Queensland Health has a page that provides a complete A- Z list of notifiable and other communicable conditions, accompanied by fact sheets, clinical guidelines, notification/surveillance forms and epidemiological data (where available) for each condition as well as links to more detailed information.

Notifiable Conditions – Clinical, Provisional & Pathological Diagnosis

Pathology laboratories are responsible for notifying conditions based on a pathology request or pathological diagnosis. In these cases, treating clinicians do not need to notify.

Clinicians must notify conditions based on a clinical or provisional diagnosis. Most notifications are required within 48 hours of meeting the criteria and can be submitted via email, fax, or phone to the local public health unit during business hours.

Urgent notifications: Some conditions are immediately notifiable and must be reported by fax or email (including after hours) as soon as they meet the criteria.