Ontario reports over 100 new measles cases, bringing total to 925

Hannah Alberga · The Canadian Press

· Posted: Apr 17, 2025 12:51 PM EDT | Last Updated: 9 minutes ago

Measles pread to 109 much radical successful Ontario implicit the past week, bringing the province's full cases to 925 since an outbreak began successful October.

Sixty-nine radical person required hospitalization — that's 8 much than past week — including 4 successful intensive care.

Measles is inactive predominantly infecting unvaccinated infants, children and adolescents successful southwestern Ontario.

Cases successful Alberta person besides been climbing since March, with 83 confirmed arsenic of Wednesday.

Meanwhile, Quebec is connected the verge of declaring its outbreak implicit if nary caller infections are reported by Saturday.

The state says it has not recorded a caller measles lawsuit since it deed 40 infections connected March 18.

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.