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Public Health Alert Hepatitis A cases in Acacia Ridge

Metro South Public Health Unit is managing three confirmed cases of Hepatitis A in Acacia Ridge on Brisbane’s South including cases of local transmission.

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28 June 2023
Public Health Unit

Supermarket prosecuted for possession and sale of vaporisers containing nicotine
11 May 2023
Public Health Unit

Metro South Public Health Unit has successfully prosecuted Zam Zam Supermarket in Kuraby for possession and sale of personal vaporisers (vapes) containing nicotine.

Winter Respiratory Viruses Sentinel Surveillance Program volunteers Zakkiya Khan and Debbie Henry

Winter Warrior results are in
22 November 2022
Public Health Unit

Over 300 volunteers in the Metro South region took up the call to join the Winter Respiratory Viruses Sentinel Surveillance Program to help identify what respiratory viruses were lurking

Don’t touch bats
4 August 2022
Public Health Unit

The Metro South Public Health Unit (MSPHU) is reminding the public not to approach, touch or handle distressed or dead bats following recent reports of injuries caused by bats.

interprofessional recognition team award 2022 PHU MSOH

The partnership that stood the test of time to win the Interprofessional recognition award
18 June 2022
Princess Alexandra Hospital

A chance meeting in March 2020 between the Metro South Public Health Unit (MSPHU) and Metro South Oral Health (MSOH) to discuss office space and the expansion of MSPHU to respond to COVID-19 led to an interprofessional collaboration that has spanned two years and contributed to the success of the COVID-19 contact tracing team in Metro South Health.

Environmental Health Officer Hazel Shumba with meal worms

Anyone for cricket? Edible insects under the microscope
3 May 2022
Public Health Unit

Can mealworms, ants and crickets worm their way into your diet?

Dr Anu Anuradha: the pandemic, prevention, and the positive spin on everything
7 March 2022
Princess Alexandra Hospital

Dr Anu Anuradha is the Clinical Lead in the Metro South Public Health Unit, and while her clinical career has crossed the globe from India to UK and then to Australia - as well as a clinical path that started in ophthalmology, through academia and research, she has well and truly found her passion in Public Health Medicine.

MSH Contact Tracers hunt down the Delta variant
12 August 2021
Princess Alexandra Hospital

The new Delta variant outbreak in south east Queensland has posed a new challenge for our Metro South Health Public Health Unit resulting in a mammoth contact tracing effort more extensive than any so far during the pandemic.

Australian Bat Lyssavirus in flying foxes

Media release: Flying fox confirmed with Australian Bat Lyssavirus in Lakewood Avenue Park, Parkinson
26 December 2020
Princess Alexandra Hospital

The Metro South Public Health Unit has confirmed that an orphaned baby bat recovered from Lakewood Avenue Park in Parkinson has tested positive for Australian Bat Lyssavirus (ABLV). 

Measles alert for Brisbane south
25 October 2019
Public Health Unit

Queensland Health has been notified of a total of 19 cases of measles on Brisbane's southside area. New cases have come from new family groups as well as contacts of previous cases.

Measles alert South Brisbane
5 July 2019
Public Health Unit

Queensland Health has been notified of a case of measles on Brisbane's southside area.