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Here we respond to some of the points made in James Carmody’s article:

1. “The WA Health Department treats every measles case as a public health emergency”

In 1950 Australian Government no longer considered measles (and whooping cough) morbidity important enough to be notifiable [1] and in 1956 it was declared that “as causes of infant mortality in Australia all the infective diseases have been overcome” [2]…. [Read More]