{"id":4316,"date":"2014-03-15T07:07:38","date_gmt":"2014-03-15T14:07:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=4316"},"modified":"2014-03-15T07:07:38","modified_gmt":"2014-03-15T14:07:38","slug":"manitoba-health-officials-warn-that-man-with-measles-was-at-sports-tournaments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/03\/15\/manitoba-health-officials-warn-that-man-with-measles-was-at-sports-tournaments\/","title":{"rendered":"Manitoba health officials warn that man with measles was at sports tournaments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/800px-Flag_of_Manitoba.svg_.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4317\" alt=\"800px-Flag_of_Manitoba.svg\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/800px-Flag_of_Manitoba.svg_-300x150.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/800px-Flag_of_Manitoba.svg_-300x150.png 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/800px-Flag_of_Manitoba.svg_.png 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Wikipedia photo<\/p>\n<p>WINNIPEG&#8211;Manitoba health officials are warning that a case of measles has been detected in the province and that the man with the highly contagious disease attended several public places.<\/p>\n<p>The patient, a man in his 40s, lives in the Interlake area and is currently in hospital.<\/p>\n<p>He attended a badminton tournament in Winkler, Man., on March 7 and 8; a volleyball tournament in Winnipeg on March 8 and 9; and visited the Victoria Hospital emergency department in Winnipeg on March 9 and the Selkirk hospital&#8217;s ER the next day.<\/p>\n<p>Officials say the disease tends to be more severe in infants and young children, and can be life-threatening.<\/p>\n<p>Measles is spread through droplets in the air formed when coughing or sneezing.<\/p>\n<p>Initial symptoms of measles include fever, runny nose, drowsiness, irritability and red eyes.<\/p>\n<p>Small white spots may also develop on the inside of the mouth or throat.<\/p>\n<p>Measles can lead to complications including ear infections, diarrhea, pneumonia and encephalitis.<\/p>\n<p>The province says measles activity has also been detected in B.C., Alberta, Saskatchewan and Ontario, &#8220;mostly related to ongoing outbreaks in the Philippines and the Netherlands.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(CTV Winnipeg)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wikipedia photo WINNIPEG&#8211;Manitoba health officials are warning that a case of measles has been detected in the province and that &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":4317,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4316","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=4316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4316\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}