{"id":8613,"date":"2025-05-08T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=8613"},"modified":"2025-05-08T20:38:52","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T00:38:52","slug":"ontario-reports-nearly-200-new-measles-cases-as-virus-spreads-across-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/ontario-reports-nearly-200-new-measles-cases-as-virus-spreads-across-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"Ontario reports nearly 200 new measles cases as virus spreads across Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Health officials say measles infected 197 more people in Ontario over the last week as the highly contagious disease emerged in new parts of the country.<\/p>\n<p>That brings the province\u2019s tally of probable and confirmed cases to 1,440 since an outbreak began in October.<\/p>\n<p>Public Health Ontario\u2019s measles report says there have been 101 hospitalizations, including 75 children. Eight patients have been in intensive care.<\/p>\n<p>Nova Scotia and Northwest Territories each reported measles cases earlier this week, marking their first since this outbreak began.<\/p>\n<p>Alberta reported yesterday that its overall case count had reached nearly 300 since mid-March, including three patients under the age of 18 in intensive care.<\/p>\n<p>Saskatchewan updated its cumulative count to 27 cases today, a day after Manitoba reported it had reached 24 cases.<\/p>\n<p>Measles has mostly infected unvaccinated children, infants and teenagers, with almost 500 cases in Ontario\u2019s southwestern public health unit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Health officials say measles infected 197 more people in Ontario over the last week as the highly contagious disease emerged in new parts of the country.<\/p>\n<p>That brings the province\u2019s tally of probable and confirmed cases to 1,440 since an outbreak began in October.<\/p>\n<p>Public Health Ontario\u2019s measles report says there have been 101 hospitalizations, including 75 children. Eight patients have been in intensive care.<\/p>\n<p>Nova Scotia and Northwest Territories each reported measles cases earlier this week, marking their first since this outbreak began.<\/p>\n<p>Alberta reported yesterday that its overall case count had reached nearly 300 since mid-March, including three patients under the age of 18 in intensive care.<\/p>\n<p>Saskatchewan updated its cumulative count to 27 cases today, a day after Manitoba reported it had reached 24 cases.<\/p>\n<p>Measles has mostly infected unvaccinated children, infants and teenagers, with almost 500 cases in Ontario\u2019s southwestern public health unit.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/ontario-reports-nearly-200-new-measles-cases-as-virus-spreads-across-canada\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ontario reports nearly 200 new measles cases as virus spreads across Canada<\/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":[315,96,282,388,372,218,119,304,362],"class_list":["post-8613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-alberta","tag-canada","tag-manitoba","tag-measles","tag-northwest-territories","tag-nova-scotia","tag-ontario","tag-outbreaks","tag-saskatchewan","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8613","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=8613"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8618,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8613\/revisions\/8618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}