Measles outbreak confirmed in Eastern Ontario's Hastings County

CBC News

· Posted: Mar 05, 2025 4:39 PM EST | Last Updated: March 5

Nine cases of measles person been confirmed successful Hastings County, and the section wellness portion is informing of assemblage exposure.

The South East Health Unit advised of a measles vulnerability that occurred astatine the Central Hastings Family Health Team successful Madoc, Ont., betwixt 11:11 a.m. and 1:11 p.m. past Thursday. The wellness portion is moving with the medical centre to place imaginable contacts.

Measles is simply a highly contagious microorganism and spreads easy done the aerial erstwhile an infected idiosyncratic breathes, coughs, sneezes oregon talks, the health portion said successful a Wednesday day quality release.

Measles symptoms statesman anyplace from 1 to 3 weeks aft vulnerability and see fever, runny nose, cough, drowsiness and reddish eyes, the wellness portion said.

Small achromatic spots whitethorn look connected the wrong of the rima and throat, and a red, blotchy rash appears connected the look and spreads down the body three to 7 days aft symptoms begin, the wellness portion added.

Vaccination recommended

As of yesterday, the wellness portion had confirmed conscionable 1 lawsuit and was investigating different probable cases. It said successful a Tuesday quality merchandise the archetypal affirmative lawsuit was an unvaccinated big who travelled wrong the province.

The South East Health Unit is recommending anyone who has been exposed to corroborate their household members person 2 doses of measles vaccine and, if symptoms develop, to enactment location and interaction a health-care provider.

Those calved earlier 1970 would apt person had measles arsenic a kid and are protected, the wellness portion said.

Medical experts are urging radical to get vaccinated for measles, arsenic the full fig of cases in the archetypal 2 months of this twelvemonth successful Ontario has already surpassed the total fig of cases for each of past year.