Health alerts – infectious diseases

October

• Measles outbreak in the Pilbara – 09 October 25 (PDF 89KB) 

September

• Online notification form 9 September 2025 (PDF 136KB) 

August

• Measles alert in WA – 12 August 25 (PDF 59KB) 

June

• Increase in COVID-19; prepare for influenza and RSV – 9 June 25 (PDF 58KB) 
• Hajj pilgrimage – 6 June 25 (PDF 58KB) 

March

• Measles alert in WA – 25 March 25 (PDF 111KB)

February

• Measles alert in WA – 12 February 25 (PDF 35KB)

December

• Mpox outbreak in WA – 20 December 24 (PDF 142KB)

November

• Shigellosis – 27 November (PDF 144KB)
• Mpox (monkeypox) – 7 November (PDF 144KB)
• Early flavivirus risk in northern WA – 6 November 24 (PDF 39KB)

October

• Increasing pertussis and azithromycin suspension shortage – 02 October 24 (PDF 110KB)

August

• Mpox (monkeypox) August 24 (PDF 167KB)

July

• Mpox (monkeypox) July 24 (PDF 74KB)

June

• Hajj pilgrimage – 18 June 24 (PDF 33KB)

May

• Flavivirus risk in WA – 17 May 24 (PDF 38KB)
• COVID-19, influenza and RSV May 2024 (hospitals) – 17 May 24 (PDF 57KB)
• COVID-19, influenza and RSV May 2024 (primary care) – 17 May 24 (PDF 59KB)

April

• Dengue fever risk for travellers to Bali – 2024 April 24 (PDF 37KB)
• Rabies risk expanded to island of Timor – 11 April 2024 (PDF 85KB)

March

• Pertussis: Reminder to test and vaccinate – 5 March 2024 (PDF 105KB)

December

• Shortage and prioritisation of Bicillin LA – 18 December 23 (PDF 59KB)
• Ralstonia pickettii outbreak – 01 December 2023 (PDF 56KB)
• Shortage of Bicillin LA – 01 December 2023 (PDF 236KB)

October

• Syphilis outbreak across WA – 23 October 23 (PDF 104KB)
• Reminder to consider measles – 12 October 2023 (PDF 107KB)

September

• Measles in returned traveller 14 September 2023 (PDF 88KB)

July

• ENT syphilis alert (PDF 123KB)
• Midwives syphilis alert (PDF 78KB)

June

• MERS-CoV and the Hajj pilgrimage 29 June 2023 (PDF 71KB)

April

• Increase in travel-associated communicable disease – 12 April 2023 (PDF 35KB)
• Dermatologists, neurologists and ophthalmologist syphilis alert (PDF 104KB)

March

• Update on Japanese encephalitis virus and Murray Valley encephalitis in WA – 27 March 2023 (PDF 105KB)
• Japanese encephalitis virus in WA – 16 March 2023 (PDF 141KB)

January

• Increase in invasive Group A Streptococcus infection notifications – 17 January 2023 (PDF 103KB)
• Syphilis outbreak across Western Australia – 4 January 2023 (PDF 131KB)

November

• Toxicity after ingesting large quantities of poppy seeds – 11 November 2022 (PDF52KB)

September

• Monkeypox virus – Clinician Alert #5 – 30 September 2022 (PDF 1.1MB)
• Rabies post-exposure prophylaxis – Clinician Alert – 16 September 2022 (PDF 122KB)

August

• Monkeypox virus – Clinician Alert #4 – 24 August 2022 (PDF 61KB) 
• Shigellosis treatment guidelines – Clinician Alert – 5 August 2022 (PDF 80KB)
• Increase in HIV notifications among Aboriginal people – 10 August 2022 (PDF163KB)

July

• MERS-CoV – Clinician Alert 8 July 2022 (PDF 74KB)
• Monkeypox virus – Clinician Alert #3 – 8 July 2022 (PDF 62KB) 

May

• Monkeypox virus – urgently notifiable disease in WA Clinician Alert #2 – 31 May 2022 (PDF 52KB)
• Monkeypox virus – Clinician Alert #1 – 20 May 2022 (PDF 67KB)
• Paediatric Hepatitis – unknown aetiology in children Infectious disease specialist/gastroenterologists alert – 04 May 2022 (PDF 58KB)

March

• Japanese Encephalitis Virus –  Clinician Alert – 02 March 2022 (PDF 79KB)