{"id":4743,"date":"2024-03-04T13:44:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-04T18:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=4743"},"modified":"2024-04-14T12:57:19","modified_gmt":"2024-04-14T16:57:19","slug":"quebec-urges-measles-vaccination-to-prevent-spread-of-highly-contagious-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/quebec-urges-measles-vaccination-to-prevent-spread-of-highly-contagious-disease\/","title":{"rendered":"Quebec urges measles vaccination to prevent spread of highly contagious disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Quebec public health officials are urging people to get themselves and their young children vaccinated for measles, a highly contagious disease that is making a comeback several years after its eradication.<\/p>\n<p>Quebec\u2019s public health director Luc Boileau, Montreal public health director Mylene Drouin, and pediatrician, microbiologist and infectious disease specialist Caroline Quach-Thanh are holding a news conference in Montreal Monday afternoon. <\/p>\n<p>So far about 10 cases have been detected in the province, mainly in Montreal, but Boileau warns that it could be just the beginning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quebec public health officials are urging people to get themselves and their young children vaccinated for measles, a highly contagious disease that is making a comeback several years after its eradication.<\/p>\n<p>Quebec\u2019s public health director Luc Boileau, Montreal public health director Mylene Drouin, and pediatrician, microbiologist and infectious disease specialist Caroline Quach-Thanh are holding a news conference in Montreal Monday afternoon. <\/p>\n<p>So far about 10 cases have been detected in the province, mainly in Montreal, but Boileau warns that it could be just the beginning.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/quebec-urges-measles-vaccination-to-prevent-spread-of-highly-contagious-disease\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Quebec urges measles vaccination to prevent spread of highly contagious disease<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[96,388,178,304,70,1059,15],"class_list":["post-4743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-canada","tag-measles","tag-montreal","tag-outbreaks","tag-quebec","tag-tiohtiake","tag-vaccines","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4743"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4745,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4743\/revisions\/4745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}