{"id":8418,"date":"2025-04-15T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=8418"},"modified":"2025-04-15T22:21:45","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T02:21:45","slug":"measles-is-spreading-in-ontario-heres-what-you-need-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/measles-is-spreading-in-ontario-heres-what-you-need-to-know\/","title":{"rendered":"Measles is spreading in Ontario \u2014 here\u2019s what you need to know"},"content":{"rendered":"

A major outbreak of measles has infected more than 800 people in Ontario. It\u2019s the first outbreak of its size since the disease was declared eliminated in 1998.<\/p>\n

Now, lower vaccination rates are leading to a serious outbreak in the province, enough to garner a travel advisory to the province from New York State south of the border.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s what you need to know about measles \u2014 how it\u2019s transmitted, how you can protect yourself, and whether you need to update your vaccinations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A major outbreak of measles has infected more than 800 people in Ontario. It\u2019s the first outbreak of its size since the disease was declared eliminated in 1998.<\/p>\n

Now, lower vaccination rates are leading to a serious outbreak in the province, enough to garner a travel advisory to the province from New York State south of the border.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s what you need to know about measles \u2014 how it\u2019s transmitted, how you can protect yourself, and whether you need to update your vaccinations.<\/p>\n

Continue readingMeasles is spreading in Ontario \u2014 here\u2019s what you need to know<\/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":[96,388,245,119,304,15],"class_list":["post-8418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-canada","tag-measles","tag-n95-respirators","tag-ontario","tag-outbreaks","tag-vaccines","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8418","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=8418"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8420,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8418\/revisions\/8420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}