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An indefinite\u00a0measles exposure advisory has been issued by the province for Parkland County, Alta.<\/p>\n
Individuals living, working and travelling in the county roughly 50 kilometres west of Edmonton are advised by the province to be aware of the current risk for contracting the disease.<\/p>\n
Anyone who was born in or after 1970 and has fewer than two documented doses of measles-containing vaccine or has never had measles may be at risk for developing the disease, said a provincial public health alert.<\/p>\n
AHS notes on its website that individuals who were at the Tri Wellness MD Centre and its adjoining pharmacy in Spruce Grove, Alta., on Feb. 2, between 10:45 a.m. and 2 p.m., may have been exposed to measles.\u00a0These people are advised to monitor for symptoms until Feb. 23. <\/p>\n
Though no new exposure incidents were reported on Thursday, the province recorded five new measles cases, all of which are in the Edmonton zone.<\/p>\n
Three people in Alberta are in hospital due to the illness and one of them is in intensive care, according to the province.<\/p>\n
The province on Wednesday identified two potential exposure sites from Feb. 8: the Edmonton Sport Centre in the city’s southside between 3 p.m. and 7 p.m., and Axe Monkeys in northwest Edmonton between 7 p.m. and 11 p.m.<\/p>\n
Measles exposure advisories remain in effect until further notice for Alberta\u2019s south zone and several locations in the north zone such as the Hamlet of La Crete, St. Theresa General Hospital in Fort Vermilion and the Northwest Health Centre in High Level.<\/p>\n
Measles is an extremely contagious disease and the virus spreads easily through the air.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Symptoms of measles include a fever of 38.3 C or higher, a cough, a runny rose, red eyes and a rash that appears three to seven days after the fever starts.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Complications of the disease can include ear infections, pneumonia, brain inflammation and, if pregnant, premature delivery.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Alberta has recorded 2,074 confirmed measles cases since the current outbreak began nearly one year ago.<\/p>\n
The province is urging anyone with symptoms of measles to stay home and call the province’s measles hotline at 1-844-944-3434.<\/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":488375,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194294],"tags":[49,48,23752],"class_list":{"0":"post-488374","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edmonton","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-edmonton"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488374","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=488374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/488375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}