{"id":499014,"date":"2026-02-25T17:42:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T17:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/499014\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T17:42:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T17:42:12","slug":"possible-measles-exposures-reported-at-winnipeg-childrens-hospital-er-province-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/499014\/","title":{"rendered":"Possible measles exposures reported at Winnipeg Children\u2019s Hospital ER, province says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/a\/assets\/texttospeech.svg\" alt=\"Text to Speech Icon\" width=\"44\" height=\"44\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Listen to this article<\/p>\n<p>Estimated 2 minutes<\/p>\n<p>The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results.<\/p>\n<p>The latest possible measles exposure sites in Manitoba\u2019s ongoing outbreak of the illness include two at Winnipeg\u2019s Children\u2019s Hospital on the weekend, the province said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Those exposures at the Health Sciences Centre Winnipeg Children\u2019s Hospital on Saturday happened from 7:45 p.m. to 11:45 p.m. in the emergency department waiting room, and from 9:45 p.m. to 3:05 a.m. in the emergency department itself, a news release said.<\/p>\n<p>There was also an exposure at the Access Event Centre \u2014 Co-op Arena in Morden, Man., on Feb. 19 last week from 9:30 p.m. to Feb. 20 at midnight, the release said.<\/p>\n<p>Manitoba public health is asking anyone who was at those locations at those times to check their immunization records and ensure they\u2019re up to date with the measles vaccine.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone not immunized against measles who may have been exposed may be eligible for preventative treatment within six days of exposure, and are encouraged to speak with a health-care provider, the province said.<\/p>\n<p>The province announced earlier this month it will only release measles exposure notifications in cases where the exposure happened in the past six days.<\/p>\n<p>More details about measles exposures in Manitoba and what to do if you\u2019re exposed to the illness are available <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.mb.ca\/health\/publichealth\/diseases\/measles-exposures.html#exposures\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">on the province\u2019s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Manitoba has already recorded <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/manitoba\/measles-february-highest-case-count-9.7099759\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">its highest monthly number of measles cases<\/a> this February since the outbreak started over a year ago.<\/p>\n<p>As of Feb. 14, there had been 82 confirmed and eight probable cases of measles this month, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.mb.ca\/health\/publichealth\/diseases\/measles.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">the latest data from the province, released Friday<\/a> last week.<\/p>\n<p>Measles is a highly contagious disease transmitted by droplets that form in the air when an infected person coughs, sneezes or talks.<\/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.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":499015,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[49,48,84,392],"class_list":["post-499014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-health","tag-healthcare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499014","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=499014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499014\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/499015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}