{"id":9148,"date":"2025-04-08T18:36:58","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T23:36:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=9148"},"modified":"2025-04-08T18:37:01","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T23:37:01","slug":"ontarios-measles-outbreak-is-so-big-even-new-york-health-officials-are-taking-notice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/04\/08\/ontarios-measles-outbreak-is-so-big-even-new-york-health-officials-are-taking-notice\/","title":{"rendered":"Ontario&#8217;s measles outbreak is so big, even New York health officials are taking notice"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/toronto\/new-york-state-department-of-health-measles-travel-advisory-ontario-1.7504085\">CBC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ontario&#8217;s measles outbreak has become so big that public health officials in New York state have included the province in a travel advisory that urges residents to get vaccinated before visiting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Measles is only a car ride away!&#8221; reads the April 2nd measles travel advisory for all New Yorkers from the New York State Department of Health.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Currently, measles outbreaks are happening in parts of the United States and Canada, especially in Ontario, and around the world.&#8221; The advisory also lists the following countries as having a high number of measles cases:&nbsp;Yemen, Pakistan, India, Thailand, Ethiopia, Romania, Afghanistan, Indonesia, Kyrgyzstan&nbsp;and Vietnam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Measles is a highly contagious virus. Around 90 per cent&nbsp;of people who are exposed to a person with measles will become infected if they are not vaccinated. Because measles is so contagious, it easily crosses borders,&#8221; the advisory continues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/toronto\/new-york-state-department-of-health-measles-travel-advisory-ontario-1.7504085\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" style=\"display: none;\" title=\"f Xn QvX bE mp nctkmzOX\">f Xn QvX bE mp nctkmzOX<\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CBC Ontario&#8217;s measles outbreak has become so big that public health officials in New York state have included the province in a travel advisory that urges residents to get vaccinated before visiting. &#8220;Measles is only a car ride away!&#8221; reads the April 2nd measles travel advisory for all New Yorkers from the New York State [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-measles"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9148"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9149,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9148\/revisions\/9149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}