{"id":46171,"date":"2015-04-02T18:00:52","date_gmt":"2015-04-02T10:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=46171"},"modified":"2015-04-02T18:00:52","modified_gmt":"2015-04-02T10:00:52","slug":"two-more-cases-of-measles-diagnosed-in-b-c-tied-to-high-school-trip-to-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/04\/02\/two-more-cases-of-measles-diagnosed-in-b-c-tied-to-high-school-trip-to-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Two more cases of measles diagnosed in B.C., tied to high school trip to China"},"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>VANCOUVER &#8212; The deputy provincial health officer of British Columbia says four cases of measles have now been diagnosed and linked to a high-school trip to China.<\/p>\n<p>Health officials in Metro Vancouver confirmed late last month that one boy and one girl were diagnosed with the highly contagious disease shortly after returning from a school trip over spring break.<\/p>\n<p>Deputy provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry says in an email that two more cases were diagnosed on Wednesday and those people were on the same trip.<\/p>\n<p>She says medical officials can&#8217;t determine if everybody was infected from a common source because of the incubation period.<\/p>\n<p>Measles can be airborne for up to two hours after an infected person leaves the area, and does not require direct face-to-face contact for transmission.<\/p>\n<p>Serious complications like inflammation of the brain and brain damage, convulsions and deafness can result from the highly infectious illness.<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of measles cases broke out in B.C.&#8217;s Fraser Valley in 2014, but only 17 cases were confirmed in the province in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Doctors across Canada have been urging the public to get vaccinated after outbreaks in Quebec and Ontario over the past several months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VANCOUVER &#8212; The deputy provincial health officer of British Columbia says four cases of measles have now been diagnosed and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":41360,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46171","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\/46171","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=46171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46171\/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=46171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}