New Brunswick well being officers are urging mother and father to get their kids vaccinated in opposition to measles after the variety of circumstances of the illness in a current outbreak has greater than doubled since Friday.
Sean Hatchard, spokesman for the Well being Division, says measles circumstances within the Fredericton and the higher Saint John River Valley space have risen from 5 on Friday to 12 as of Tuesday morning.
Hatchard says different suspected circumstances are underneath investigation, however he didn’t say how and the place the outbreak of the illness started.
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He says information from the 2023-24 faculty yr present that about 10 per cent of scholars weren’t fully immunized in opposition to the illness.
In response to the outbreak, Horizon Well being Community is internet hosting measles vaccine clinics on Wednesday and Friday.
The measles virus is transmitted by means of the air or by direct contact with nasal or throat secretions of an contaminated particular person, and may be extra extreme in adults and infants.
This report by The Canadian Press was first printed Nov. 5, 2024.
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