Ontario measles case count tops 800, 155 new infections since last week

Hannah Alberga · The Canadian Press

· Posted: Apr 10, 2025 1:04 PM EDT | Last Updated: 5 minutes ago

Ontario is reporting 155 caller measles cases implicit the past week, pushing the province's lawsuit number to 816 since an outbreak began successful the fall.

The fig of caller cases has accrued again aft a fewer weeks of appearing to stabilize successful the 100-per-week range, which nationalist wellness physicians had taken arsenic a motion of imaginable optimism.

Public Health Ontario says determination person present been 61 hospitalizations — that's 11 much than past week — including 47 children. Unimmunized kids are the predominant radical infected by the outbreak.

Most cases are inactive successful Ontario's southwestern nationalist wellness unit, but they spread to 2 much nationalist wellness units this week, including Hamilton and Northeastern, which covers Timmins and Englehart.

Measles usually begins with a fever, cough, runny chemoreceptor and reddish watery eyes, followed by a reddish blotchy rash that starts connected the look and spreads to the assemblage and limbs.

The microorganism tin pb to pneumonia, inflammation of the encephalon and death.