Province warns of new measles exposure sites in southwestern Manitoba

CBC News

· Posted: May 13, 2025 5:38 PM EDT | Last Updated: 2 minutes ago

The Manitoba authorities is informing the nationalist astir a bid of measles exposures successful southwestern Manitoba past week.

Public wellness officials said successful an update Tuesday the nationalist mightiness person been exposed to the highly infectious illness astatine 4 sites successful the assemblage of Boissevain,  astir 200 kilometres southwest of Winnipeg, between Wednesday and Friday:

• Canada Post astatine 558 Broadway St. betwixt May 7-9 from 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.
• Goodon Industries Ltd astatine 252 Mill Rd. betwixt May 7-9 from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m.
• Sunrise Credit Union Ltd astatine 356 South Railway St. betwixt May 7-9 from 3:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
• RBC at 388 South Railway St. connected May 9 from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

People who mightiness person been exposed to the illness and person not been straight contacted by the section wellness authorities are being asked to ticker for symptoms until May 29-31.

Twenty confirmed and 4 imaginable measles cases person been reported successful the state truthful acold this year, according to information arsenic of May 3.

The state said Tuesday immoderate of the precocious reported cases person nary known interaction with different cases. All known cases reported earlier that had known interaction with measles either during question oregon successful Manitoba, the merchandise said.