Lambton Public Health is reporting the County’s First Measles Case in 2025, Amid an Ongoing Provincial Outbreak.
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LATE Friday afternoon public Health Officials Announced the Laboratory-Confirmed Case in An Individual, Saying Officials Had Followed Up With All Known Contacts and Exhibits, and That Further Investigation is NGOING.
Further Details Weren’T Immously Available.
Dr. Karalyn Dueck, Lambton’s Medical Officer of Health, Said Last April Lambton Had Not at Measles Case in At Least 10 Years.
Public Health Ontario is Reporting 440 Measles Cases in Ontario in 2025 As of March 19, and that all but seven have been linked to a travel-related case from Oct. 18, 2024, from New Brunswick.
About Three Quarters of All 470 Outbreak Cases Sale OCTOBER Have Been in Infants, Children and Adolescents, According to A March 20 Measles in Ontario Report from the provincial public health body.
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In 93 per cent of Those Cases Among Infants, Children and Adolescents, They Weren’t Immunized, The Report Says.
About 64 per hundred of adults infed were immunized, it say.
Places and dates of exhibition for measles are monitored at PublicChealthontario.ca, Though Details for the Lambton Case Weren’t Available As of Saturday.
Southwestern Public Health, Which Oversees Elgin and Oxford Counties and St. Thomas, Has reported 228 boxes of Measles since Octuber 202419 Resulting in Hospitalization.
Eighteen Cases Have Been Reported In Chatham-Kent.
Infants and pregnant people who have been been vaccinated, and people who are immunocompromed are considering most at risk of contracting measles and complications from the virus, Lambton Health Unit Officials Said in the release.
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“Measles is prevented by Vaccine and Those Who Have Received A Full Schedule of A Measles-Contain Vaccine, Have Previously Been Infected Or Wre Born Prior to 1970 Are considered to be protected from infection,” The Release Says.
“The Measles Vaccine is highly effective at preventing infection and is included in Ontario’s publicly Funded Routine Immunization Schedule.”
The Highly Contagious Measles Virus is Spread through the Air when People with the Breathe virus, cough or sneeze, Officials Said.
The virus can Live for up to Two Years in the Air, and Measles Symptoms included fever, A Red Blotchy Rash, Red Watery Eyes, and Koplik (White) Spots in the Mouth, Officials Said.
Anyone Who Thinks they infed Should Contact Their Health Care Provider Immondately, Officials Said.
Anyone with Symptoms Should Self-Isolate at Home, Officials Said.
“If you need to visit a health care provider, please call first and inform them that you have measles symptoms, so the appropriate precautions can be taken,” public health officials Said.
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