{"id":43139,"date":"2015-02-22T13:19:22","date_gmt":"2015-02-22T05:19:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=43139"},"modified":"2015-02-22T13:19:22","modified_gmt":"2015-02-22T05:19:22","slug":"public-health-officials-confirm-a-19th-case-of-measles-in-quebecs-lanaudiere-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/02\/22\/public-health-officials-confirm-a-19th-case-of-measles-in-quebecs-lanaudiere-region\/","title":{"rendered":"Public health officials confirm a 19th case of measles in Quebec&#8217;s Lanaudiere region"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_41360\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-41360\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/shutterstock_76006264-e1423333509515.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-41360\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/shutterstock_76006264-e1423333509515.jpg\" alt=\"shutterstock\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/shutterstock_76006264-e1423333509515.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/shutterstock_76006264-e1423333509515-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-41360\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">shutterstock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MONTREAL &#8212; Health officials say a 19th case of measles has been confirmed in Quebec.<\/p>\n<p>Public health officials at a news conference on Saturday would not confirm whether the new case is a child or an adult, nor whether it is linked to Quebec&#8217;s previous 18 cases.<\/p>\n<p>The source of the outbreak for the first 18 cases has been traced to Disneyland, California.<\/p>\n<p>All of the Quebec cases have been concentrated in the Lanaudiere region, northeast of Montreal.<\/p>\n<p>None of the people infected in Quebec were vaccinated for the disease.<\/p>\n<p>Quebec health authorities said that several dozen other people are currently under observation, since measles has a two-week incubation period.<\/p>\n<p>While measles was declared eliminated from the U.S. in 2000, the illness has reappeared in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>Toronto Public Health reported a new confirmed case on Saturday bringing the total number in Ontario to 18.<\/p>\n<p>Manitoba has also reported a case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MONTREAL &#8212; Health officials say a 19th case of measles has been confirmed in Quebec. Public health officials at a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":41360,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,18,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ca","category-health","mauthors-the-canadian-press1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}