{"id":570893,"date":"2026-03-28T23:18:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T23:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/570893\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T23:18:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T23:18:09","slug":"measles-cases-confirmed-in-major-urban-hub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/570893\/","title":{"rendered":"Measles cases confirmed in major urban hub"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A measles alert has been issued for the Gold Coast area after two cases were confirmed to have been contracted by people overseas and then brought home to Australia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Gold Coast Health listed 11 different \u201cexposure sites\u201d where people may have inadvertently been exposed to the virus, which can cause fever, coughing, blotchy rashes, runny noses and sore eyes.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Health authorities have issued a warning to residents after a traveller with a highly infectious disease was detected in a major city. NSW Health was notified of a traveller with a confirmed case of measles who took an international flight to Sydney and visited several locations in the city. The person returned from South-East Asia, which are currently reporting measles outbreaks, incuding Thailand, Vietnam, and Indonesia.\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"719\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/3df280579eb31f4d7569497079041730.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>People in Robina have been urged to look out for symptoms if they attended a number of locations at particular at times between March 7 and March 22. Picture: supplied<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Locations and times of concern include the Gold Coast Hillsong Church on March 8 between 5.15pm and 8.30pm, the Robina Town Centre on March 9 between 4.30pm and 6.00pm and ALDI Robina on March 10 between 3pm and 4pm.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Most of the exposure sites are located within Robina, with timings found between March 7 and March 22, but two exceptions include the RACV Royal Pines Resort in Benowa and the Mudgee Bah Espresso Cafe in Mudgeeraba.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cAnyone who was in these areas, on these dates, should be alert for symptoms of measles for up to three weeks from the exposure date,\u201d a Gold Coast Health spokesman said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A measles alert has been issued for the Gold Coast area after two cases were confirmed to have&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":570894,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[64,63,241910,137,165326,255884,46675],"class_list":["post-570893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-gold-coast-health","tag-health","tag-measles-alert","tag-symptoms-of-measles","tag-the-gold-coast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=570893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570893\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/570894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}