{"id":627514,"date":"2026-04-25T10:25:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T10:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/627514\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T10:25:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T10:25:11","slug":"manitoba-health-officials-report-25-more-measles-cases-as-province-remains-national-hotspot-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/627514\/","title":{"rendered":"Manitoba health officials report 25 more measles cases as province remains national hotspot"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Manitoba health officials are reporting more than two dozen newly confirmed measles cases as the province continues to be Canada’s hot spot for the infectious disease.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The latest provincial data<\/a>, which goes up to April 18 and was updated on Friday, shows Manitoba has recorded 23 more confirmed cases and two more probable cases since last week’s update.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Friday’s update puts the provincial tally at 497 confirmed infections and 70 probable cases so far this year. That’s a total of 567 cases \u2014 nearly 63 per cent higher than the total case count for all of 2025.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

There have been 80 confirmed cases and five probable cases so far in April, the new figures say.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Manitoba has the highest number of measles cases of any Canadian province, accounting for over 60 per cent of all cases in the country, federal data shows<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

This week, health officials sent out several bulletins warning that members of the public may have been exposed to measles at locations in southern Manitoba, including the Children’s Hospital emergency department, a school and transit bus routes.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Anyone who was at the Portage District General Hospital emergency department in Portage la Prairie at the following times is encouraged to monitor for symptoms:<\/p>\n

April 17 from 1:30 a.m. to 7:45 a.m.April 18 from 1:10 a.m. to 3:25 a.m.April 18 from 6:30 p.m. to 9 p.m.<\/p>\n

The province warned Winnipeggers may have been exposed to the highly contagious disease at the following locations and times:\u00a0<\/p>\n

Winnipeg Transit Route D16 (Academy-Notre Dame) on April 16 from 7:30 a.m. to 10 a.m.Winnipeg Transit Route F7 (St. Anne\u2019s-Provencher) on April 16 from 8 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.Victor Wyatt School on April 16 from 8:30 a.m. to 6 p.m.Teen Stop Jeunesse on April 16 from 4 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.<\/p>\n

People who were at the Health Sciences Centre Children\u2019s Hospital emergency department in Winnipeg on April 15 from 11 a.m. to 3:50 p.m. and April 18 from 11:05 a.m. to 4:50 p.m. are asked to monitor for symptoms, the province said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Recent exposure sites are updated on the province’s website.<\/a> <\/p>\n

There is no cure for measles and treatment focuses on symptom relief.<\/p>\n

Symptoms typically appear seven to 21 days after exposure. They can include a cough and fever, a runny nose and conjunctivitis (pink eye).<\/p>\n

People who contract measles may get white spots on the inside of their mouth and a red rash, which can be painful.\u00a0<\/p>\n

People with measles are infectious from four days before the rash appears to four days after it appears.<\/p>\n

The illness spreads through droplets that form in the air when an infected person coughs, sneezes or talks. The measles virus can stay in the air for several hours.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The province says immunization is the only way to protect people from contracting measles.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 3 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":627515,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[49,48,84],"class_list":{"0":"post-627514","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"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627514","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=627514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/627515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}