{"id":8050,"date":"2025-02-14T16:15:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-14T21:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=8050"},"modified":"2025-02-16T13:05:31","modified_gmt":"2025-02-16T18:05:31","slug":"confirmed-case-of-measles-in-hamilton-area-child-public-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/confirmed-case-of-measles-in-hamilton-area-child-public-health\/","title":{"rendered":"Confirmed case of measles in Hamilton area child: public health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The City of Hamilton says it is investigating a confirmed case of measles.<\/p>\n<p>Hamilton Public Health (HPH) says the confirmed case is tied to a Hamilton area child and they are investigating several local exposures.<\/p>\n<p>Measles exposure may have occurred at Holy Name of Jesus Catholic Elementary School at 181 Belmont Avenue, near Cannon Street East, between Feb.&nbsp;4 and Feb.&nbsp;7 from 9&nbsp;a.m. to 6:10&nbsp;p.m. on each day.<\/p>\n<p>Exposure could have also taken place at the McMaster Children\u2019s Hospital Emergency Department at 1200 Main Street West near University Avenue on Feb.&nbsp;10 from 11:59&nbsp;a.m. to 12:29&nbsp;p.m.<\/p>\n<p>HPH says they have notified and are following up directly with identified contacts who may have been exposed to the virus.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who may have been exposed should watch for measles symptoms for 21 days after exposure, according to HPH, even if your measles vaccinations are up to date.<\/p>\n<p>Symptoms include a high fever of 38.8&nbsp;C or higher, a red and blotchy rash, cough, runny nose, and red and watery eyes.<\/p>\n<p>HPH advises anyone who develops symptoms should stay home and not attend work, school, childcare, or any other public spaces.<\/p>\n<p>Public Health Ontario (PHO) says a total of 57 confirmed and six probable cases of measles have been reported in the province so far this year as of Feb.&nbsp;12.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The City of Hamilton says it is investigating a confirmed case of measles.<\/p>\n<p>Hamilton Public Health (HPH) says the confirmed case is tied to a Hamilton area child and they are investigating several local exposures.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/confirmed-case-of-measles-in-hamilton-area-child-public-health\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Confirmed case of measles in Hamilton area child: public health<\/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":[96,777,388,119,304,15],"class_list":["post-8050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-canada","tag-hamilton-region","tag-measles","tag-ontario","tag-outbreaks","tag-vaccines","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8050","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=8050"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8054,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8050\/revisions\/8054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}