WA’s health experts say measles is now being transferred between Pilbara locals, rather than just confined to returned travellers as the State’s outbreak expands.

The State has now recorded 47 cases of the highly infectious disease, but WA Health fears that the true number could be higher with the latest case believed to have caught the illness locally.

All previous cases were in returned travellers, or in people who could be linked to returned-traveller cases.

The six most recent cases were all within the Pilbara with the rapidly expanding exposure site list including Hedland Health Campus Emergency Department and Coles in South Hedland.

WA Health urged Pilbara residents and travellers to the region to be alert for symptoms of measles following the confirmed community transmission in

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