The Owen Sound Regional Hospital. (Photo by Nathan Shubert)
Grey Bruce Public Health is advising of a potential measles exposure location in the area.
The Health Unit says a person confirmed to have measles attended the emergency department at the Owen Sound hospital at about 9:30 p.m. last Wednesday evening (April 2), and remained there until about 6:30 a.m. Thursday, April 3.
Grey Bruce Public Health has already contacted all registered patients who were at the hospital’s emergency department then, but say others who weren’t registered may not have been identified.
Public Health is advising anyone who was at the emergency department during that window last week that hasn’t been contacted to confirm your measles vaccination status with your primary care provider.
In Ontario, two doses of measles vaccine has been part of the routine childhood immunization schedule since 1996. Public Health says people born before 1970 are generally considered to have acquired natural immunity.
Grey Bruce Public Health says the province is currently experiencing a “multi-jurisdictional measles outbreak.” Hundreds of cases have been reported across the province, but around 95 per cent of them are in people who don’t have measles immunity or an unknown vaccination status.
