Manitoba, Canada: 2025 Measles

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Source: https://globalnews.ca/news/11002519/...outbreak/\\\\\


Five cases of measles reported in Manitoba connected to Ontario outbreak
By Kevin Hirschfield Global News
Posted February 4, 2025 5:44 pm
1 min read

Manitoba public health officials have confirmed five cases of measles in the southern part of the province are connected to an outbreak in Ontario...

...The province says there are several locations in Manitoba where people may have been exposed:

Jan. 26: Reinland Mennonite Church (Winkler) from 9:15 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

Jan. 31: Health Sciences Centre – first floor children’s lab and waiting rooms of Clinic X and Clinic W from 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Jan. 31: Health Sciences Centre – Orange Bison Zone Level 1 in and around Guildy’s eatery and adjacent corridors from 12 pm. to 3 p.m.

Jan. 31: Health Sciences Centre – fourth floor cardiology clinic and waiting room in Children’s Hospital from 1 to 4 p.m...

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Source: https://news.gov.mb.ca/news/?archive=&item=67897


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March 7, 2025

Measles Update

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Public health officials with Manitoba Health, Seniors and Long-Term Care are notifying the public of a confirmed measles case, unrelated to previously announced cases, and connected with recent international travel, to Pakistan.
The Winnipeg Regional Health Authority (WRHA) has initiated an investigation.
Individuals who were on the following flights or at exposure sites may have been exposed to the measles virus:

Exposure Sites	Exposure Date and Local Time	Monitor Symptoms Until:
Health Sciences Centre Winnipeg Children’s Hospital emergency department waiting room	March 3 from 7:30 p.m. to midnight on March 4	March 25
Winnipeg Richardson International Airport	Feb. 26 between 7:09 p.m. and 9:30 p.m.	March 19
WestJet flight WS489 from Toronto Pearson International Airport to Winnipeg	Feb. 26 departing at 5:20 p.m. and arriving at 7:09 p.m.	March 19
Toronto Pearson International Airport terminal 3 including immigration	Feb 26 between 2:15 p.m. and 7 p.m.	March 19
Qatar Airways flight QR0767 from Hamad International Airport, Doha, Qatar, to Toronto	Feb. 26 departing at 8:10 a.m. and arriving at 2:15 p.m.	March 19
Qatar Airways flight QR0605 from Jinnah International Airport, Karachi, Pakistan, to Doha	Feb. 26 departing at 4:15 a.m. and arriving at 5:05 a.m.	March 18

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Source: https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/br...h-measles-case


Manitoba records 10th measles case
Scott Billeck By: Scott Billeck Posted: 5:45 PM CDT Thursday, Apr. 10, 2025

Manitoba Public Health has reported four new probable cases of measles, raising the number of confirmed and probable infections reported since February to 10 cases.

A provincial government spokesperson said there is no public risk at this time.

“These were travel-related cases (from Ontario) with no known potential exposures to report,” the spokesperson said. “The individuals were isolated immediately upon their return (in a personal vehicle) to Manitoba, prior to their period of communicability.”..

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Source: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manit...toba-1.7518521

Manitoba health officials urge vaccinations as number of measles cases climbs
'Even just 1 dose is very protective': Southern Health medical officer of health
CBC News · Posted: Apr 25, 2025 12:35 PM EDT | Last Updated: 3 hours ago

Manitoba health authorities are working to build trust with southern communities where immunization rates are low, in order to prevent a full-scale measles outbreak.

"We are definitely seeing a change in decision making for a number of parents, but we also see a number of parents who are still continuing to decide not to have their children immunized. So it's definitely a mixed response," said Dr. Davinder Singh, a medical officer of health for the Southern Health region.

"We're constantly trying to build trust with those who, for whatever reason, have not had their children immunized … to try to provide information on the importance of it."




Measles can be life-threatening and tends to be more severe in infants and young children.

As of Thursday, there had been nine lab-confirmed cases of measles detected in Manitoba this year, according to provincial data....

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Source: https://globalnews.ca/news/11163513/...kler-winnipeg/

Measles exposure alert issued for communities south of Winnipeg
By Staff The Canadian Press
Posted May 4, 2025 2:05 pm

Public health officials in Manitoba are warning of new measles exposure sites in two communities south of Winnipeg, including a medical centre and an elementary school.

Officials say people may have been exposed to the virus at the C. W. Wiebe Medical Centre and the Dynacare blood and medical test lab in Winkler, Man. on April 24, 25 and 29.

The Real Canadian Superstore in the community has also been added as an exposure site for April 28, from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m.

Additional exposures may have occurred at the Winners in Winkler on the evening of April 27, and at Gretna School in Gretna, Man. between April 22 and 24...

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Source: https://www.westernstandard.news/man...le-cases/64574

Manitoba measles outbreak continues, 10 confirmed, 4 probable cases
Christopher Oldcorn
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07 May 2025, 11:25 am

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Manitoba faces an ongoing measles outbreak with 10 confirmed and four probable cases reported since late April.

Public health officials warn of recent exposures at schools, hospital emergency room, and retail store.

Health officials are asking residents to watch for symptoms and check their measles vaccination status.

Key exposure sites include Dugald School on Holland Street in Dugald, east of Winnipeg, where potential contact occurred on April 29, 30, and May 2 between 8:45 am CST and 5:40 pm CST.

Also, bus routes 26 (Route 72) and 128 (Route 79) that serve Dugald School, Oakbank Elementary, Springfield Middle School, and Springfield Collegiate Institute.

A school field trip to the Manitoba Museum on those dates also poses exposure risks.

Other locations include the Boundary Trails Health Centre emergency room, between Morden and Winkler, where exposures happened on April 27 from 4:11 pm CST to 10:00 pm CST, and the Winkler Real Canadian Superstore at 175 Cargill Road on April 28 between 4:00 pm CST and 6:00 pm CST.

Anyone at any of these exposure locations should watch for symptoms until at least May 19–24...

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Source: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manit...y-14-1.7534764

Province broadens vaccine eligibility as 24 more measles cases reported in Manitoba
44 confirmed and 4 probable cases announced in province since start of 2025
Arturo Chang · CBC News · Posted: May 14, 2025 12:48 PM EDT | Last Updated: 4 hours ago

The government has expanded eligibility for the measles vaccine in parts of Manitoba after cases once again doubled in the province.

The Manitoba government said in a bulletin Wednesday afternoon that infants as young as six months old living in the Southern Health area and the Interlake Eastern Regional Health Authority will be eligible to get the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine, as well as those who travel regularly or have close contact with people in those regions.

The bulletin was released after the province reported in its website that 24 new cases of measles had been confirmed since its last update a week ago. The new provincial numbers show cases as of Saturday.

Forty-four confirmed cases and four probable cases have now been reported in 2025. Last week, the total tally for people who'd contracted the highly contagious disease stood at 20 confirmed and four probable cases...

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Source: https://pembinavalleyonline.com/arti...pembina-valley

Three new measles exposure sites identified in the Pembina Valley
Written by Candace Derksen Thursday, May 15 2025, 3:15 PM

Three new measles exposure sites in the region have been identified by Manitoba Public Health.

They are:
Winkler Mennonite Church, 31 Willowdale Cres., Winkler, May 8 from 7:30 p.m. to 11 p.m.

Gretna Elementary School, Box 90, 622 9th St., Gretna, May 5, 7 and 8 from 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.

Bus #38 before and after school, servicing Gretna Elementary School on May 5, 7 and 8 from 7:50 a.m. to 11 a.m., and 3:30 p.m. to 6:20 p.m...

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Source: https://winnipeg.citynews.ca/2025/05...s-in-manitoba/

Two measles exposure sites in Manitoba
By Eddie Huband
Posted May 18, 2025 2:37 pm.

The province is notifying the public of new measles exposure sites. Public health is also noting that some of the recent measles cases did not have any known contact to a case.

The two recent exposure sites are the Winnipeg Jazz Orchestra event at cultural centre Franco-Manitobain on may 11, from 12:50 pm to 4:14 pm, and Dave and Laverne’s modern diner on may 11 from 2:30 pm to 6 pm...

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Source: https://www.ctvnews.ca/winnipeg/arti...hern-manitoba/

Province warns of potential measles exposure at two schools in southern Manitoba
By Milan Lukes
Published: May 24, 2025 at 1:13PM EDT

Public health officials are advising Manitobans of potential measles exposures at two schools in southern Manitoba.

Individuals who were at Prairie Dale School in Schanzenfeld on May 12 from 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. may have been exposed to measles, according to a news release Friday.

Collège Lorette Collegiate in Lorette was listed as another potential exposure site of the virus on May 12 from 8:20 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.

Individuals who think they may have been exposed at either school are being asked to contact Health Links-Info Santé and monitor symptoms until June 3...