{"id":45490,"date":"2015-03-24T23:49:50","date_gmt":"2015-03-24T15:49:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=45490"},"modified":"2015-03-25T01:06:09","modified_gmt":"2015-03-24T17:06:09","slug":"two-airline-passengers-arrive-in-b-c-with-measles-health-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/03\/24\/two-airline-passengers-arrive-in-b-c-with-measles-health-officials\/","title":{"rendered":"Two airline passengers arrive in B.C. with measles: health officials"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_45639\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-45639\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/shutterstock_117567658.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-45639\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/shutterstock_117567658.jpg\" alt=\"shutterstock\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/shutterstock_117567658.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/shutterstock_117567658-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/shutterstock_117567658-900x600.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-45639\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">shutterstock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>VANCOUVER &#8212; Health officials in Vancouver say two people who arrived in the city on a flight from Beijing have tested positive for measles.<\/p>\n<p>Vancouver Coastal Health says the passengers would have been infectious when they arrived on Saturday aboard Air China Flight CA991.<\/p>\n<p>The health authority says people who are not immunized are at risk, and passengers whose vaccinations are not up to date should visit a doctor, public-health unit or walk-in clinic.<\/p>\n<p>It says people born before 1957 are considered to be immune and don&#8217;t need a vaccination.<\/p>\n<p>But those born between 1957 and 1970 should have one dose, and those born after 1970 should have two doses of the vaccination.<\/p>\n<p>Serious complications like inflammation of the brain and brain damage, convulsions and deafness can result from the highly infectious illness spread through the air.<\/p>\n<p>The health authority says measles is now rare in Canada but one person in 3,000 dies from the disease.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VANCOUVER &#8212; Health officials in Vancouver say two people who arrived in the city on a flight from Beijing have &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":45639,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ca","category-health","mauthors-the-canadian-press1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45490","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=45490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45490\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}