More measles cases likely to hit Hong Kong, disease expert warns.
Hong Kong could face a second wave of measles infections, a top disease expert warned on Monday, as health authorities stepped up vaccinations of workers at the city’s airport.
University of Hong Kong microbiologist Dr Ho Pak-leung said the attendant, who had travelled to Japan, was probably the source of the outbreak at Hong Kong International Airport. Ho said local measles outbreaks in recent years had been limited to households and hospitals, and that a case at the airport had not been seen in the past decade.
Speaking on two radio programmes on Monday morning, Dr Wong Ka-hing, who heads the Centre for Health Protection, said the centre had set up a vaccination station in the non-restricted part of the airport. This came after some airport workers complained about not being able to get vaccinated on Sunday, as the booth was inside a restricted zone.
Wong said about 400 workers were vaccinated since last Friday, and that authorities would try to speed up the process.
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