Manitoba confirms 16 more measles cases, putting total at 60

CBC News

· Posted: May 21, 2025 3:17 PM EDT | Last Updated: 5 hours ago

The fig of measles cases continues to emergence successful Manitoba, with the full present sitting astatine 60 confirmed cases and 4 much probable ones.

That's up from 44 confirmed and 4 probable in past week's update from the provincial government.

The summation was recorded successful spite of the province's determination to expand eligibility for the measles vaccine successful confederate Manitoba, wherever astir exposures and cases person been reported.

Effective May 14, infants arsenic young arsenic six months aged who unrecorded successful the Southern Health and Interlake-Eastern Regional Health Authority areas, who question regularly oregon who person adjacent interaction with radical successful those regions are eligible to get the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine.

The fig of cases is being updated connected the government's website every Wednesday.

The state besides lists elaborate accusation connected the locations, times and days wherever nationalist measles exposures person occurred.

Measles is characterized by a rash that appears connected the look and progresses down the assemblage respective days aft archetypal symptoms look — mostly 7 to 21 days aft exposure. It can beryllium life-threatening and is much terrible successful children.

The illness spreads done the aerial erstwhile idiosyncratic coughs, sneezes oregon talks. Even a fewer minutes successful the aforesaid abstraction arsenic a sick idiosyncratic poses corruption risks, and the virus tin linger connected surfaces for 2 hours aft an infected idiosyncratic leaves.

Measles was considered eliminated successful Canada successful 1998, but some imported cases effect successful time-limited outbreaks, Health Canada says.

As of May 3, determination had been 1,593 confirmed and 253 probable cases successful Canada successful 2025, by acold the astir since 1998. The 2nd astir was 752 cases reported successful each of 2011.