Polio case leads to health alert - National - theage.com.au

re: "HEALTH authorities are contacting people who flew to Melbourne from Bangkok early this month, after a fellow passenger was diagnosed with polio. /The 22-year-old Pakistani student, who lives in Melbourne, is the first person in Australia to be diagnosed with polio in 20 years. He reported symptoms soon after returning from a holiday in Pakistan earlier this month. Tests last night confirmed the polio virus. /Victoria's chief health officer, John Carnie, said health authorities had started contacting at least 100 passengers of Thai Airlines flight TG 999, which left Bangkok on July 1 and arrived in Melbourne on July 2, as a precaution. But the risk of infection is believed to be low..."...