{"id":287049,"date":"2025-11-16T16:06:38","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T16:06:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/287049\/"},"modified":"2025-11-16T16:06:38","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T16:06:38","slug":"2-new-measles-cases-1-exposure-reported-in-manitoba-ahead-of-the-weekend-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/287049\/","title":{"rendered":"2 new measles cases, 1 exposure reported in Manitoba ahead of the weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Manitoba health officials are reporting two more measles cases.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The numbers as of Nov. 8 have risen to 249 confirmed cases of the highly contagious disease as of Friday&#8217;s weekly update, with 16 probable cases.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The province also announced a new measles exposure site in Portage la Prairie in an update Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Anyone who was at the Portage District General Hospital&#8217;s emergency department on Tuesday, Nov. 11 from 12 a.m. to 4:30 a.m. is being asked to monitor for symptoms until Dec. 3.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Earlier this week, the Public Health Agency of Canada announced the country had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/health\/livestory\/canada-measles-elimination-status-9.6973195\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:lost its measles elimination status;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">lost its measles elimination status<\/a>, with more than 5,000 cases reported across the country since last fall.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Hospitalization numbers in Manitoba have held steady at 16, including 13 children under the age of 10. There have been two admissions to intensive care units and no deaths.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manitoba health officials are reporting two more measles cases. The numbers as of Nov. 8 have risen to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":275145,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[49,48,13358,75416,84,123286,5041,130172],"class_list":["post-287049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-confirmed-cases","tag-contagious-disease","tag-health","tag-manitoba-health","tag-measles","tag-portage-la-prairie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287049","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=287049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}