Health-care providers urge vigilance as more measles cases confirmed in Pictou County

Olivia Piercey · CBC News

· Posted: Jul 11, 2025 12:58 PM EDT | Last Updated: July 11

Heath experts encourage awareness when making summertime plans arsenic 4 cases of measles are nether probe successful Pictou County. 

Dr. Cristin Muecke, the determination aesculapian serviceman of wellness for the bluish zone, said there are 3 laboratory confirmed cases and 1 probable case in the area.

"This is inactive a localized situation," said Muecke. "None of the cases we've seen person been a surprise. They're each connected to each other."

Muecke said wellness authorities person been moving to place imaginable contacts.

Public Health is asking anyone astatine the pursuing vulnerability sites to show for symptoms and get successful interaction if symptoms start:

• Aberdeen Hospital exigency section successful New Glasgow connected July 5 between 5 p.m. and 8 p.m.
• St. Martha's Regional Hospital exigency section successful Antigonish connected July 5 betwixt 10:45 a.m. and 2:15 p.m.

Muecke said radical should marque definite they are up to day connected immunizations earlier immoderate trips oregon gatherings this summer.

"Measles is 1 of the astir contagious infections, truthful we spot a precocious proportionality of radical getting infected if they are unprotected," said Muecke. 

At first, measles tin contiguous similar a communal cold. People tin beryllium contagious with the illness earlier telltale symptoms start.

These symptoms see fever, a reddish blotchy rash, and tiny achromatic spots that whitethorn amusement up wrong the rima and throat. 

The illness is peculiarly unsafe for those with compromised immune systems, young children and large people. Measles tin origin superior wellness issues and successful the lawsuit of pregnancy, the illness tin beryllium transmitted to the fetus. It tin beryllium deadly successful terrible cases.

Measles is simply a debased hazard to the wide nationalist due to the fact that astir radical are protected by vaccination oregon person immunity owed to a erstwhile infection, according to Nova Scotia Public Health. There person been 5 cases of measles successful Nova Scotia this year, according to figures released this week.

Muecke said determination has been a precocious uptake of vaccinations successful the Pictou County portion with measles vaccination clinics successful New Glasgow getting a batch of visits.