Overview
- Peel Public Health alerted travelers that a confirmed measles case was on two flights that passed through Pearson International and that the case spent time in Terminals 1 and 3, and urged potentially exposed people to act.
- The Philadelphia Department of Public Health notified people who passed through Terminals A, B and C of a possible exposure at Philadelphia International and said there is no current threat to the general public while urging exposed people to respond if they are not protected.
- Health officials advise anyone who might have been exposed to confirm they have two doses of the MMR vaccine and to watch for fever, runny nose, cough, red or watery eyes, and a rash during the measles incubation window.
- Measles spreads through the air from breathing, coughing, sneezing or talking and the virus can remain in an enclosed space for more than two hours, making unvaccinated travelers and close contacts especially vulnerable.
- Authorities point to elevated measles activity regionally and globally and say targeted airport notifications aim to limit onward spread by prompting vaccination checks and symptom monitoring among those who traveled through the named flights and terminals.