{"id":357144,"date":"2025-12-20T07:00:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T07:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/357144\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T07:00:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T07:00:17","slug":"montreal-hospitals-flagged-as-sites-for-possible-measles-exposure-as-cases-climb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/357144\/","title":{"rendered":"Montreal hospitals flagged as sites for possible measles exposure as cases climb"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A measles outbreak in Quebec has grown and cases are now being linked to locations in Montreal.\u00a0<\/p>\n

As of Dec. 17, public health officials in Quebec have confirmed six cases of measles in Quebec, primarily in the Lanaudi\u00e8re region, the Laurentians and Laval.<\/p>\n

But public health officials now say people may have been exposed in Montreal.\u00a0<\/p>\n

They list a youth clinic in Pierrefonds-Roxboro, and the emergency rooms of both Sainte-Justine Hospital and the Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital as possible exposure locations.\u00a0<\/p>\n

They also list a Walmart Supercentre in the Saint-Leonard neighbourhood and an Adonis grocery store in Anjou as places where an infected person visited.\u00a0<\/p>\n

For the full list of exposure locations, along with dates and times of exposure, see the Quebec government website here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The flagging of new exposure sites comes after public health officials signalled a new measles outbreak in Quebec and said a person with measles had visited the Up centre d’urgences p\u00e9diatriques Saint-Eustache.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The new outbreak is the first in Quebec in months. The last outbreak occurred between December 2024 and April 2025.<\/p>\n

Quebec public health officials are investigating the outbreak in an attempt to discover its origins and identify people who have been exposed to measles.<\/p>\n

Measles is extremely contagious. Common symptoms include fever, runny nose and a characteristic red rash spreading across the body and lasting one to two weeks. It can lead to serious complications including pneumonia and brain inflammation.<\/p>\n

People at risk include babies under one year old, people with weakened immune systems and those who have not been sufficiently vaccinated against measles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 2 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":274364,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[49,48,295,66],"class_list":{"0":"post-357144","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-environment","11":"tag-science"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357144","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=357144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}