Health officials warn of measles exposure at 2 schools in southern Manitoba

CBC News

· Posted: May 23, 2025 3:27 PM EDT | Last Updated: 1 hr ago

Public wellness officials are informing radical astatine 2 schools successful confederate Manitoba that they mightiness person been exposed to measles earlier this month.

Prairie Dale School connected 39 Church St. successful the agrarian municipality of Schanzenfeld, which is astir 100 kilometres southwest of Winnipeg, is 1 of them. 

Those who were astatine the schoolhouse connected May 12 from 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. are asked to show for measles symptoms until June 3, the state said successful a Friday bulletin. 

People mightiness person besides been exposed to the highly contagious microorganism astatine the Collège Lorette Collegiate astatine 1082 Dawson Rd. in Lorette, astir 25 kilometres southeast of Winnipeg. 

The imaginable measles vulnerability astatine the schoolhouse happened connected May 12 betwixt 8:20 a.m. and 1:30 p.m.  Anyone who might have been exposed should besides show for symptoms of the highly infectious illness until June 3. 

The vulnerability at the Collège Lorette Collegiate is the archetypal astatine the Seine River School Division, said superintendent Colin Campbell. 

"I tin understand parents interest connected the connected the matter," helium said. "It's possibly felt a small disconcerting conscionable because everyone's conscionable came out of COVID not excessively agelong ago." 

Campbell says the province contacted the part astir the vulnerability past weekend, and Seine River provided nationalist wellness with a database of students and unit who mightiness person been exposed to measles.

Parents of children who were astatine hazard of contracting the microorganism person already been contacted nationalist health, helium says. 

"I truly admit our parents and our assemblage that person been supportive of what nationalist wellness has expected of them. That makes getting done this arsenic a assemblage and … limit this to an idiosyncratic and move connected from here," Campbell said.

Measles, which is dispersed done droplets successful the aerial from coughing oregon sneezing, tin beryllium life-threatening and tends to beryllium much terrible successful infants and young children. 

Symptoms mostly look 7 to 21 days aft exposure, and tin see a fever, runny nose, drowsiness, irritability and reddish eyes. Small achromatic spots tin besides look connected the wrong of the rima oregon throat, the state said.

A idiosyncratic with the unwellness tin dispersed the microorganism from 4 days earlier their rash appears until 4 days aft that.

Immunization is the lone mode to support radical from contracting measles, the state said.

In Manitoba, a two-dose vaccine programme for measles, mumps, rubella and varicella (chickenpox) is routinely provided for children astatine slightest 1 twelvemonth old, and again betwixt ages 4 and six. If a kid is exposed to measles, the state said, a 2nd dose tin beryllium fixed earlier.

As of May 17, the astir existent information available, determination were 60 confirmed cases of measles successful Manitoba this twelvemonth and 4 much probable cases. That fig includes 42 confirmed cases successful May alone.