Hamilton child with measles was at a local Costco and 3 other locations last week, city says

Desmond Brown · CBC News

· Posted: Mar 10, 2025 10:37 AM EDT | Last Updated: March 10

Hamilton Public Health Services (HPHS) has issued a informing astir exposures to a travel-related confirmed lawsuit of measles successful a Hamilton child.

In a quality merchandise Sunday, HPHS said vulnerability to the measles microorganism whitethorn person occurred astatine the pursuing locations connected the dates indicated:

• Hamilton Medical Centre and Walk-In Clinic (52 Cannon Street West, Unit 103): March 5, from 9:15 a.m. to 12 p.m.

• Costco — Stoney Creek Warehouse (1330 South Service Road, Stoney Creek): March 5 from 3:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.

• Stoney Creek Medical Walk-in Clinic (140 Centennial Parkway North): March 6 from 6:40 p.m. to 9 p.m.

• McMaster Children's Hospital Emergency Department (1200 Main Street West): March 6 from 7:53 p.m. to 8:53 p.m.

"Measles is simply a serious, vaccine-preventable corruption that tin origin terrible life-long complications," said Dr. Brendan Lew, Associate Medical Officer of Health.

"Vaccination against measles is highly effectual and we tin combat the dispersed of measles done vaccination, education, and vigilant nationalist wellness measures. It is powerfully recommended you and your household are up-to-date with due measles vaccination and that you study your child's vaccines to Public Health."

Measles cases connected the emergence successful Ontario

The informing from HPHS comes arsenic Ontario faces a emergence successful measles cases. In caller weeks, cases person been reported successful respective parts of the province, including York Region, Peel Region, Windsor, North Bay, Guelph, Southwestern Public Health region, Grand Erie Public Health portion and Huron Perth Public Health region.

HPHS says anyone who has been notified by Public Health that they person been exposed to the measles virus, oregon anyone who believes they whitethorn person been exposed to the measles microorganism should bash the following:

• Watch for symptoms of measles for 21 days aft vulnerability — adjacent if they are up-to-date with their measles vaccinations. Measles symptoms statesman 7-21 days aft corruption and whitethorn include:

1. High fever of 38.8 C oregon greater
2. Red, blotchy rash 3 to 7 days aft symptoms start
3. Cough
4. Runny nose
5. Red, watery eyes

• Check their immunization grounds to corroborate they and their household members are up-to-date with their measles vaccinations (MMR oregon MMRV). Those who are unsure tin cheque with their health-care provider. Two doses are mostly recommended for anyone calved successful oregon aft 1970. In general, those calved earlier 1970 are considered protected against measles.

For radical calved aft 1970, who person not received 2 doses of measles containing vaccines (MMR oregon MMRV), HPHS says they should debar interaction with infants nether 1 twelvemonth of age, large people, and immunocompromised radical and immoderate high-risk settings including health-care, child-care and schoolhouse settings.

For immoderate measles vulnerability that occurs successful a schoolhouse oregon childcare setting, Hamilton Public Health Services volition exclude students and childcare attendees identified arsenic exposed to the measles microorganism who bash not person up-to-date records with Public Health. Those students oregon childcare attendees with nary doses of a measles vaccine volition beryllium excluded from schoolhouse oregon childcare for 21 days pursuing the exposure.

Identified contacts of the measles microorganism who are students oregon childcare attendees with 1 dose of measles vaccine volition beryllium excluded until they person a 2nd dose of a measles vaccine. They should interaction their health-care supplier astir receiving a 2nd dose, and notify the session successful beforehand that they person been identified arsenic a interaction of measles, HPHS says.

If you make symptoms of measles, HPHS advises that you enactment location and bash not be work, school, childcare, oregon immoderate different nationalist spaces. You should besides instrumentality the pursuing steps:

• Contact your health-care supplier by telephone to sermon your symptoms. Before attending a health-care mounting including a session oregon infirmary — you indispensable notify the installation that you person been successful interaction with idiosyncratic who has measles truthful that due precautions tin beryllium enactment into spot earlier you enter.

• If you are incapable to scope your health-care provider, interaction Hamilton Public Health Services astatine 905-546-2063 to talk with a Public Health Nurse to sermon follow-up recommendations.

• If you reside extracurricular of Hamilton, delight interaction your section Public Health Unit.