{"id":8316,"date":"2025-03-26T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-26T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=8316"},"modified":"2025-03-27T21:12:46","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T01:12:46","slug":"measles-inevitable-in-ottawa-expert-warns-as-ontario-outbreak-spreads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/measles-inevitable-in-ottawa-expert-warns-as-ontario-outbreak-spreads\/","title":{"rendered":"Measles \u2018inevitable\u2019 in Ottawa, expert warns as Ontario outbreak spreads"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ottawa Public Health has begun monitoring wastewater for evidence of measles in the city as the highly infectious disease continues to surge throughout Ontario.<\/p>\n

That makes Ottawa one of the only communities in the province and across Canada using wastewater as a possible early warning signal for measles. Ottawa Public Health says the tool is promising for detecting measles, but the research is limited and \u201cmany unknowns remain\u201d.<\/p>\n

There have been no cases in Ottawa so far this year but Dr. Gregory Rose, who is director of infection prevention and control at Queensway Carleton Hospital, warns that it is only a matter of time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ottawa Public Health has begun monitoring wastewater for evidence of measles in the city as the highly infectious disease continues to surge throughout Ontario.<\/p>\n

That makes Ottawa one of the only communities in the province and across Canada using wastewater as a possible early warning signal for measles. Ottawa Public Health says the tool is promising for detecting measles, but the research is limited and \u201cmany unknowns remain\u201d.<\/p>\n

There have been no cases in Ottawa so far this year but Dr. Gregory Rose, who is director of infection prevention and control at Queensway Carleton Hospital, warns that it is only a matter of time.<\/p>\n

Continue readingMeasles \u2018inevitable\u2019 in Ottawa, expert warns as Ontario outbreak spreads<\/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":[96,18,388,119,137,177,249,8,14,356,12,354,745],"class_list":["post-8316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-canada","tag-covid-19","tag-measles","tag-ontario","tag-ottawa","tag-ottawa-public-health","tag-ottawa-gatineau","tag-research","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-university-of-ottawa","tag-wastewater","tag-wastewater-monitoring","tag-windsor","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8316","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=8316"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8317,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8316\/revisions\/8317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}