{"id":4749,"date":"2024-03-05T06:44:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-05T11:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=4749"},"modified":"2024-03-05T11:06:26","modified_gmt":"2024-03-05T16:06:26","slug":"four-provinces-confirm-measles-cases-including-rare-case-in-fully-vaccinated-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/four-provinces-confirm-measles-cases-including-rare-case-in-fully-vaccinated-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Four provinces confirm measles cases, including rare case in fully vaccinated man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seventeen cases of measles have been confirmed in Quebec, Ontario, Saskatchewan and British Columbia \u2014 more than half of those in the Montreal area, while one Ontario case has been linked to a high school.<\/p>\n<p>Quebec public health director Dr. Luc Boileau confirmed 10 cases on Monday, almost all of them involving children and making Montreal the country\u2019s epicentre. He said only three of the cases were linked to travel outside of the country, indicating community spread in and around the city.<\/p>\n<p>Public Health Ontario confirmed five cases of measles and said all but one involved travel.<\/p>\n<p>The latest case, announced last week, was in a man in his 30s in the York Region north of Toronto and was \u201clikely\u201d related to community transmission, the region\u2019s medical health officer said.<\/p>\n<p>The man had \u201cclose contacts\u201d among students and teachers at a high school so public health officials in that region are ensuring everyone there is vaccinated, Dr. Barry Pakes said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seventeen cases of measles have been confirmed in Quebec, Ontario, Saskatchewan and British Columbia \u2014 more than half of those in the Montreal area, while one Ontario case has been linked to a high school.<\/p>\n<p>Quebec public health director Dr. Luc Boileau confirmed 10 cases on Monday, almost all of them involving children and making Montreal the country\u2019s epicentre. He said only three of the cases were linked to travel outside of the country, indicating community spread in and around the city.<\/p>\n<p>Public Health Ontario confirmed five cases of measles and said all but one involved travel.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/four-provinces-confirm-measles-cases-including-rare-case-in-fully-vaccinated-man\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Four provinces confirm measles cases, including rare case in fully vaccinated man<\/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":[83,96,388,119,304,70,362,15],"class_list":["post-4749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-british-columbia","tag-canada","tag-measles","tag-ontario","tag-outbreaks","tag-quebec","tag-saskatchewan","tag-vaccines","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4749","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=4749"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4752,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4749\/revisions\/4752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}