{"id":473754,"date":"2026-02-14T04:21:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T04:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/473754\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T04:21:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T04:21:10","slug":"manitoba-sees-44-measles-cases-in-first-week-of-february-winnipeg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/473754\/","title":{"rendered":"Manitoba sees 44 measles cases in first week of February &#8211; Winnipeg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Provincial officials are still urging Manitobans to get vaccinated to curb the spread of measles.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Numbers from the province\u2019s website show 44 confirmed cases in the first week of February. The province is also warning of more than 100 exposure sites across the province.<\/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\/12\/healthiq.jpg\" alt=\"Receive the latest medical news and health information delivered to you every Sunday.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet weekly health news<\/p>\n<p>Receive the latest medical news and health information delivered to you every Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Brian Ward, an emeritus professor of infectious diseases with McGill University, says the virus is two-three times more transmissible than the super-infectious COVID-19 variant Omicron.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a little bit over the top to say one person in a football stadium or a hockey rink could infect every susceptible person there, but it\u2019s not that far off,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the video above to learn more about the highly transmissible virus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Provincial officials are still urging Manitobans to get vaccinated to curb the spread of measles. Numbers from the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":187147,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[49,48,84,5041,714,17293],"class_list":{"0":"post-473754","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-measles","12":"tag-politics","13":"tag-vaccine"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473754","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=473754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}