{"id":8072,"date":"2025-02-20T13:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-20T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=8072"},"modified":"2025-02-20T15:22:06","modified_gmt":"2025-02-20T20:22:06","slug":"four-more-measles-cases-confirmed-in-norfolk-county-and-brant-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/four-more-measles-cases-confirmed-in-norfolk-county-and-brant-county\/","title":{"rendered":"Four more measles cases confirmed in Norfolk County and Brant County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Grand Erie Public Health Unit is investigating four new cases of measles.<\/p>\n<p>In a news release on Thursday, the health unit said the latest cases were identified in Norfolk County and Brant County.<\/p>\n<p>Two of the recently ill people are recovering in hospital while the other two are at home.<\/p>\n<p>Thursday\u2019s update brings the total number of confirmed illnesses to 57, nine of which have occurred among adults and 48 within children.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><i class=\"fa fa-camera\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>&nbsp;Image description: Colourized transmission electron micrograph of a measles virus particle (gold), with a purple background. Photo: CDC and NIAID. Image is licensed under a <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\" rel=\"license\">Creative Commons CC BY 2.0 DEED | Attribution 2.0 Generic license<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\" rel=\"license\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-width: 0;height: 31px;width: 88px\" src=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/09\/by.png\" alt=\"Creative Commons License\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Grand Erie Public Health Unit is investigating four new cases of measles.<\/p>\n<p>In a news release on Thursday, the health unit said the latest cases were identified in Norfolk County and Brant County.<\/p>\n<p>Two of the recently ill people are recovering in hospital while the other two are at home.<\/p>\n<p>Thursday\u2019s update brings the total number of confirmed illnesses to 57, nine of which have occurred among adults and 48 within children.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/four-more-measles-cases-confirmed-in-norfolk-county-and-brant-county\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Four more measles cases confirmed in Norfolk County and Brant County<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8075,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[96,388,119,304,15],"class_list":["post-8072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-canada","tag-measles","tag-ontario","tag-outbreaks","tag-vaccines","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8072","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=8072"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8077,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8072\/revisions\/8077"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}