{"id":808780,"date":"2026-07-17T22:32:28","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T22:32:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/808780\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T22:32:28","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T22:32:28","slug":"province-hosting-measles-vaccine-clinics-after-confirmed-case-in-moncton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/808780\/","title":{"rendered":"Province hosting measles vaccine clinics after confirmed case in Moncton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Public Health is offering a series of measles vaccination clinics in Moncton a week after one case was identified in the area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">No new cases have been confirmed since one was announced July 10, according to an email by the department of health sent Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">But the province is encouraging people to book an appointment at its Public Health office at 81 Albert St. in Moncton to get the shot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The first clinic took place Friday. The next ones are scheduled for July 19 from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. and on July 21 from 4:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;People are encouraged to book an appointment through the\u00a0<a data-ylk=\"slk:provincial scheduler;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/schedule.ableassess.com\/VNB\/Register?culture=en\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">provincial scheduler<\/a> or by calling Tele-Services at\u00a01-833-437-1424\u00a0(available\u00a0Monday to Friday, 8:15 a.m.\u00a0to 4:30 p.m.),&#8221; a spokesperson for the department wrote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A health advisory sent out July 10 said a passenger on an Air Canada flight from Toronto to Moncton on July 7 tested positive for the disease when he landed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Those who were on the flight or present at the Moncton airport on July 7, and people who visited the Moncton Hospital&#8217;s emergency department that morning should continue to monitor for symptoms, according to the chief medical officer of health, Yves L\u00e9ger.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">If people are concerned about potential symptoms, they should isolate themselves and call Telecare 811, according to the department of health.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Symptoms for measles develop within three weeks of exposure and may include fever, cough, runny nose, sore or red eyes, or tiny white spots in the mouth, a previous advisory said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;DO NOT go to the Emergency department, doctor&#8217;s office or clinic,&#8221; the department of health wrote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Public Health is offering a series of measles vaccination clinics in Moncton a week after one case was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":808781,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[49,48,5831,50822,84,17723,283895],"class_list":["post-808780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-department-of-health","tag-emergency-department","tag-health","tag-moncton","tag-moncton-airport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808780","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=808780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/808781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=808780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=808780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=808780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}