2023-10-16 16:19:04
Two Outaouais residents were infected with measles following returning from a trip to Europe, a disease that can be transmitted up to four days following its onset.
The two people were thus contagious when they took a flight from Brussels to Montreal, Ottawa Public Health confirmed to the “Ottawa Citizen” on Saturday.
They then quickly headed to a hospital center in the federal capital to be treated there.
Ottawa health authorities said they were working with other public health units and hospitals “to directly identify and notify people who may have been exposed to measles in Ottawa,” the office said. media.
Nearly all residents who may have been exposed in Ottawa and across the Ottawa River had been contacted by public health as of Saturday.
“At present, the risk to the general population remains low,” he added in the press release sent to the “Ottawa Citizen”.
Measles is a highly contagious viral respiratory disease. The preferred means of preventing it remains vaccination, especially at a young age.
The measles virus can be transmitted for four days before the rash appears and for four days followingward. The symptoms are high fever, runny nose, cough, conjunctivitis and then the appearance of redness on the body.
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