{"id":782477,"date":"2026-07-05T20:48:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T20:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/782477\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T20:48:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T20:48:11","slug":"measles-exposure-in-scarborough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/782477\/","title":{"rendered":"Measles exposure in Scarborough"},"content":{"rendered":"

Toronto Public Health is notifying the public about a measles exposure at a Scarborough hospital and a walk-in clinic after confirming a travel-related case.<\/p>\n

TPH said in a news release on Sunday<\/a> that those who were at Scarborough General Hospital\u2019s ER waiting room on June 28 from 7 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. and Kids Out-patient clinic on June 30 from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. may have been exposed to measles.<\/p>\n

In addition, anyone who was at the Markington Family Care and Walk-in Clinic on June 29 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. should also check for symptoms of the highly contagious respiratory infection.<\/p>\n

TPH is asking those who were at those locations to monitor themselves until July 21 and immediately contact their health provider if they develop fever, runny nose, cough, red eyes, a red rash that begins on the face and spreads down the body and small blue-white spots (Koplik spots) that can appear on the inside of the mouth and throat. <\/p>\n

According to TPH, the city has five confirmed cases of measles, all linked to travel outside of Canada.<\/p>\n

The virus spreads through the air when an infected person breathes, coughs, sneezes or talks.<\/p>\n

As of June 20, there have been 1,079 measles cases in Canada<\/a>. Of those, 28 are located in Ontario.<\/p>\n

Last year, after more than two decades since measles was eliminated in Canada, the country lost that status following a multijurisdictional outbreak. According to the Public Health Agency of Canada, in 2025, there were 5,462 cases. Between 1998 and 2024, the average measles cases were 91.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Toronto Public Health is notifying the public about a measles exposure at a Scarborough hospital and a walk-in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":782478,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[712,43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-782477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-apple-news","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782477","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=782477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/782478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=782477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=782477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=782477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}