{"id":9688,"date":"2025-06-11T09:00:16","date_gmt":"2025-06-11T14:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=9688"},"modified":"2025-06-11T09:00:19","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T14:00:19","slug":"a-huge-outbreak-has-made-ontario-the-measles-centre-of-the-western-hemisphere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/06\/11\/a-huge-outbreak-has-made-ontario-the-measles-centre-of-the-western-hemisphere\/","title":{"rendered":"A huge outbreak has made Ontario the measles centre of the western hemisphere"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jun\/06\/measles-outbreak-ontario-canada\">Guardian<\/a> Outside the emergency room of the St Thomas Elgin general hospital, about 200km (125 miles) south-west of Toronto, a large sign with bright yellow block letters issues an urgent warning: \u201cNO MEASLES VAX &amp; FEVER COUGH RASH \u2013 STOP \u2013 DO NOT ENTER!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To see such an imperative in the 21st century might have been previously unimaginable for&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/canada\">Canada<\/a>, which in 1998 achieved \u201celimination status\u201d for measles, meaning the virus is no longer circulating regularly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, however, Canada is at risk of losing that status \u2013 mainly because of an explosive outbreak of the highly infectious and sometimes deadly disease in south-western Ontario, where the St Thomas hospital is located.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since October, the province has reported a staggering 2,009 cases of measles associated with the current outbreak \u2013 more than all of those in the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/measles\/data-research\/index.html\">United States combined in 2025<\/a>, and making Ontario the measles centre of the western hemisphere.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guardian Outside the emergency room of the St Thomas Elgin general hospital, about 200km (125 miles) south-west of Toronto, a large sign with bright yellow block letters issues an urgent warning: \u201cNO MEASLES VAX &amp; FEVER COUGH RASH \u2013 STOP \u2013 DO NOT ENTER!\u201d To see such an imperative in the 21st century might have [&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":[6,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-headlines","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\/9688","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=9688"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9689,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9688\/revisions\/9689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}