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VANCOUVER – Another case of measles was recorded in British Columbia, bringing to 27 the total number of confirmed cases in the province.
Officials from Fraser Health and Vancouver Coastal Health say the latest case concerns a Vancouver Metropolitan who returned to the Vancouver International Airport on April 13 on a Japan flight. Airlines coming from Tokyo.
A press release from the health authorities indicates that the patient contracted measles overseas, but that it was infectious in several places in the Lower Mainland.
It indicates that unvaccinated or partially vaccinated travelers may have been exposed when they were aboard Saturday flight JL018 or when they visited the Ramada Hotel in Coquitlam, its restaurant or the hotel. downtown Lougheed in Burnaby on Sunday.
This marks the eighteenth case of confirmed measles in the Vancouver area since February.
Cases were also recorded on Vancouver Island, the Fraser Valley and at 100 Mile House in the southern Cariboo area.
Symptoms of measles include fever, cough, runny nose and red eyes, followed by a rash that starts on the face and spreads to the chest.
The infectious period begins four days before the onset of the rash and lasts four days after its onset.
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