Peel Public Health confirms 1 new measles case, warns of possible exposure in Mississauga

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· Posted: Mar 18, 2025 2:26 PM EDT | Last Updated: 6 minutes ago

Peel Public Health is informing the nationalist that they whitethorn person been exposed to measles astatine 4 locations in Mississauga, aft confirming a caller lawsuit of the virus. 

The measles lawsuit confirmed past Friday, March 14 is the 4th lawsuit successful Peel portion truthful acold successful 2025, the nationalist wellness bureau says. 

Anyone who was contiguous astatine the pursuing locations successful Mississauga during definite times whitethorn person been exposed to the virus: 

• Hazel McCallion Central Library connected March 7 betwixt 11 a.m. and 6 p.m. 
• Multi-Specialty Med Clinic from 7 p.m. on March 8 until 1 a.m. on March 9. 
• Aboud Health Group connected March 10 betwixt 4:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. 
• Credit Valley Hospital Emergency Room connected March 11 betwixt 10:30 a.m. and 7:55 p.m. 

The wellness bureau says anyone who was successful those locations astatine those times should cheque their immunization grounds to marque definite they and their household members are up to day connected their measles vaccinations. You tin cheque with your health-care supplier if you're unsure. 

Those experiencing symptoms, specified arsenic precocious fever, cough, reddish rash and red, watery eyes, are advised to interaction their health-care supplier and enactment location from enactment oregon school.

Measles is simply a highly contagious disease, PPH warns, and it poses an accrued hazard of wellness complications to infants nether the property of one, arsenic good arsenic unimmunized large radical and radical with weakened immune systems.

As of March 12, Public Health Ontario is reporting 350 full measles cases, since an outbreak began past October — the astir terrible outbreak successful the state successful much than a decade.