{"id":243199,"date":"2026-01-17T14:35:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T14:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/243199\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T14:35:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T14:35:09","slug":"person-infected-with-measles-lands-at-montreal-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/243199\/","title":{"rendered":"Person infected with measles lands at Montreal airport"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A person infected with measles landed at Montreal-Trudeau International Airport on Jan. 8 after flying with Air Canada, Quebec\u2019s Health Ministry announced in a news release Friday.<\/p>\n

The flight in question is AC 835, which landed in the afternoon. People on board this flight and present at the airport in the arrivals and baggage area between 3:51 p.m. and 6:20 p.m. on that day may have been exposed to the measles virus, authorities warn.<\/p>\n

The ministry also indicates that the infected person visited several locations between Jan. 10 and 13, including a Super C grocery store, the emergency department and radiology clinic at Verdun hospital, and a Familiprix pharmacy.\u00a0<\/p>\n

On its website<\/a>, the ministry provides a complete list of locations, dates and times that may have put the public at risk.<\/p>\n

Public health is urging anyone who visited these locations during the specified periods to monitor for symptoms and to call the 811 Info-Sant\u00e9 line if symptoms appear.<\/p>\n

People at risk of complications include babies under one, immunocompromised individuals and those who are pregnant but not adequately vaccinated against measles.<\/p>\n

In addition to this, an outbreak is underway with a total of nine other cases confirmed in the Lanaudi\u00e8re, Laurentians, Laval and Montreal regions.<\/p>\n

The last measles outbreak in the province took place between December 2024 and April 19, 2025.<\/p>\n

The government recommends vaccination as the best protection against measles.<\/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":243200,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[242,85,46,141],"class_list":["post-243199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}