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Measles Cases Rising Province Wide

Ontario reported 155 new cases in the past week, including 32 in the Southwestern Public Health region.

SWPH - Southwestern Public Health reported 32 new cases of measles in Oxford, Elgin and Middlesex in the past week.

This brings our grand total to 328 since the province wide outbreak began in October.

In its latest report released yesterday, Public Health Ontario reported 155 cases province-wide, bringing the grand total to 816.

Sixty-one people have been hospitalized with the virus, including 47 children. Three people have been sent to the ICU and no deaths have been reported.

Unimmunized people account for 84 percent of the cases, while those with one dose of the measles vaccine account of 0.9 percent and those with two or more doses account for 4.8 percent. Almost 10 percent had an unknown immunization status or were not able to prove that they were vaccinated.

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