Measles is back. Now is the time to bolster Australian public health

‘With an outbreak in parts of the US afflicting hundreds of patients, measles is back in the news. Almost all the affected are unvaccinated, of which a few have died.’ Photograph: Annie Rice/EPA

Late one evening I am reflecting on my inpatient list. The first patient, a middle-aged man, has been admitted with an “all-over” rash.

Since every other patient was sicker, this patient had slipped my mind and I had left the hospital without seeing him, thus breaking my own rule.