{"id":106416,"date":"2025-08-29T22:37:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T22:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/106416\/"},"modified":"2025-08-29T22:37:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T22:37:14","slug":"manitoba-parents-urged-to-get-kids-their-measles-vaccines-ahead-of-school-year-winnipeg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/106416\/","title":{"rendered":"Manitoba parents urged to get kids their measles vaccines ahead of school year &#8211; Winnipeg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-byline__image\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"68\" width=\"68\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1756507031_605_author-placeholder.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tBy \tVasilios Bellos<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tGlobal News\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tPosted August 29, 2025 4:53 pm\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t1 min read\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tDescrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tIncrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>Students are heading back to class next week, and parents are hoping for a successful and healthy year ahead.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1756110368_560_70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Manitoba has seen an increase in measles cases, with 187 confirmed by the province so far this year. Statistics show the measles vaccination rate for children seven years of age is 65.4 per cent, a drop from 74.3 per cent in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMeasles is the most infectious virus that we know of,\u201d says McMaster University medicine professor Dawn Bowdish, who believes getting vaccination rates up in a classroom setting to be crucial.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA person who has measles and is breathing in the air can leave enough measles in that air that a person two hours later can walk in the room and get measles. So you can think about classrooms, how kids interact, it can spread like wildfire through unvaccinated communities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-video__image\" alt=\"Click to play video: 'Health Matters: Canada has highest number of measles cases in North America'\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/HEALTH_MATTERS_AUG_18TH_ONLINE_STILL.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"   data-\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t2:24<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tHealth Matters: Canada has highest number of measles cases in North America\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tTrending Now\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11354085\/mexican-senate-fight-debate-drug-cartels\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1756507033_189_mexico-senate-fight.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tBrawl breaks out in Mexican Senate after debate on drug cartels\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11354127\/1991-2020-plant-hardiness-zones-map-canada\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/movin-to-the-country-gonna-eat-a-lot-of-peaches-dave-parmelee.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tMost of Canada sees changes under newly updated plant hardiness zones map\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Younger children are more prone to side effects from the vaccine, including fever, feeling sick, and becoming irritable.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1756402221_230_national.jpg\" alt=\"Get the day's top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet daily National news<\/p>\n<p>Get the day&#8217;s top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.<\/p>\n<p>The lowest provincial vaccination rate currently is in Manitoba\u2019s Southern Health Region, which was found to be 53.3 per cent in 2023. The first dose of the measles vaccine is recommended when a child is at least one year old, with the second happening between the ages of four and six.<\/p>\n<p>Manitoba Medical Officer of Health Natalie Casaclang says keeping kids up to date on their shots can be life-saving.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTwo doses, almost 100 per cent effective in protecting from infection and we know there are people experiencing extreme illness from measles, so getting a measles containing vaccine can protect against that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The province\u2019s website has more information for parents who are looking to get their children vaccinated against measles.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tMore on Canada<br \/>\n\t\t\tMore videos\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2025 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Vasilios Bellos Global News Posted August 29, 2025 4:53 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":106417,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[49,48,84,60660,51880,44],"class_list":["post-106416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-health","tag-manitoba-measles","tag-measles-vaccine","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}