{"id":8513,"date":"2025-04-26T13:36:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-26T17:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=8513"},"modified":"2025-04-26T21:51:47","modified_gmt":"2025-04-27T01:51:47","slug":"new-travel-related-measles-case-found-in-the-lower-mainland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/new-travel-related-measles-case-found-in-the-lower-mainland\/","title":{"rendered":"New travel-related measles case found in the Lower Mainland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new case of travel-related measles has been confirmed in the Lower Mainland this week.<\/p>\n<p>Fraser Health says a traveller from Ontario who went to Vancouver and Chilliwack on April&nbsp;20 has a confirmed infection of the virus.<\/p>\n<p>The health authority says members of the public may have been exposed to measles if they were at the following locations over the past week:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Air Canada Flight AC2105 from Toronto to Vancouver, departing at 8:38&nbsp;a.m. and arriving at 10:09&nbsp;a.m. on April&nbsp;20;<\/li>\n<li>Domestic arrivals area of Vancouver International Airport, including baggage claim, from 10:15&nbsp;a.m. to 1:15&nbsp;p.m. on April&nbsp;20;<\/li>\n<li>The Chilliwack Coliseum between 12:30&nbsp;p.m. and 3:15&nbsp;p.m. on April&nbsp;20; and<\/li>\n<li>The Coast Chilliwack Hotel at 45920 First Avenue from 1&nbsp;p.m. on April&nbsp;20 to 12&nbsp;a.m. on April&nbsp;25.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cMeasles is a highly infectious disease transmitted by the airborne route,\u201d Fraser Health said.<\/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>A new case of travel-related measles has been confirmed in the Lower Mainland this week.<\/p>\n<p>Fraser Health says a traveller from Ontario who went to Vancouver and Chilliwack on April&nbsp;20 has a confirmed infection of the virus.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/new-travel-related-measles-case-found-in-the-lower-mainland\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New travel-related measles case found in the Lower Mainland<\/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":[83,96,388,304,121],"class_list":["post-8513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-british-columbia","tag-canada","tag-measles","tag-outbreaks","tag-vancouver","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8513","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=8513"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8517,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8513\/revisions\/8517"}],"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=8513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}