Overview
- Toronto Public Health warned that people who visited specific Scarborough health-care sites late in June may have been exposed to measles, naming the Scarborough Health Network emergency waiting room, the hospital’s kids outpatient clinic, and the Markington Family Care and Walk‑in Clinic.
- Authorities said the local exposures are connected to a travel-related measles case and noted the city has recorded multiple travel-linked cases this year.
- The agency advised anyone potentially exposed to confirm they are fully vaccinated with MMR and to monitor for measles symptoms such as fever, cough, runny nose, red eyes and a spreading rash for the virus’s incubation period.
- Parents and guardians of infants under one year were told to contact Toronto Public Health or call 311 immediately because those infants may be eligible for immunoglobulin treatment to prevent or lessen infection.
- Health officials stressed measles’ extreme contagiousness and that the virus can linger in the air or on surfaces for more than two hours, a factor that makes brief overlaps in shared health settings a public‑health concern and can prompt further targeted exposure notices.