Hamilton public health warns of possible measles exposures at restaurant, concert hall

Samantha Beattie · CBC News

· Posted: May 15, 2025 3:56 PM EDT | Last Updated: 5 minutes ago

Hamilton nationalist wellness is informing of imaginable exposures to the measles earlier this month.

A idiosyncratic who doesn't unrecorded successful Hamilton but visited was aboriginal confirmed to person the measles, said nationalist wellness successful a connection Thursday. 

Public wellness said it is pursuing up with radical who were successful interaction with the idiosyncratic and whitethorn person been exposed to the virus. 

Others whitethorn person been exposed astatine the pursuing dates and locations successful Hamilton:

• May 2, 7 p.m. to 11:30 p.m. astatine CIMA Enoteca Restaurant, 190 Locke St. S.
• May 3, 5:30 p.m. to 12 a.m. astatine FirstOntario Centre Concert Hall, 1 Summers Ln. 

Anyone who believes they whitethorn person been exposed should ticker for symptoms for 21 days after, nationalist wellness said. Symptoms see a precocious fever of 38.8 C oregon greater, reddish blotchy rash, cough, runny nose, red watery eyes, drowsiness, irritability and/or tiny achromatic spots with achromatic centres connected the wrong of the rima and throat. 

People who make symptoms are advised to enactment location and interaction a health-care supplier implicit the telephone earlier going successful person. 

"Measles is simply a serious, vaccine preventable corruption that tin origin terrible life-long complications," said Dr. Bart Harvey, Hamilton's associate aesculapian serviceman of health. "Vaccination against measles is highly effectual and we tin combat the dispersed of measles done vaccination, education, and vigilant nationalist wellness measures."

Virus continues to dispersed successful Ontario

Measles has infected 182 radical successful Ontario implicit the past week, bringing the provincial full to 1,622 since October, according to Public Health Ontario.

Its measles study says determination person been 119 hospitalizations, including 89 children. Of those hospitalized, 95 per cent were unvaccinated.

Southwestern Ontario's nationalist wellness portion is inactive wherever astir of the caller cases are concentrated.

Measles cases successful Alberta person reached astir 400 since mid-March, infecting conscionable implicit 120 kids nether property five. The bulk of those patients were unvaccinated, arsenic well.