Pregnant women are "bearing the burden" of the huge measles outbreak in Canada, Dr. Catherine Varner, an expert on emergency ...

See related editorial at Pregnant people with measles are at higher risk of pneumonia, hepatitis, and hospitalization and have a 10-fold higher risk of death than those who are not pregnant.[1][2] ...

Measles is on the rise in Canada and poses serious risks to pregnant people and their newborns, yet discussion about how to ...

Measles cases are rising in Ontario, putting pregnant people and their babies at risk. Experts are calling for better prenatal screening for measles antibodies and urging vaccination before pregnancy.

In pregnancy, complications of measles include secondary bacterial infections like severe pneumonia or hepatitis because of ...

Measles is a respiratory infection with symptoms that include fever, a blotchy rash, a cough and red, watery eyes. In May 2024, a child under five died of measles in Hamilton, but before that, there ...

Anyone who visited the medical office building on the 3900 block of South Rochester Road on June 3 may have been exposed.

The CDC is urging vaccination before international travel due to the increased risk of a measles exposure. Learn how to ...

Ontario Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr. Kieran Moore says an infant born prematurely and infected with measles has died ...

Ontario's chief medical officer of health says six infants have been born with congenital measles since an outbreak began last fall, adding they were infected in the womb through mothers who were not ...

Infant infected with the disease in utero from unvaccinated mother is first fatality associated with the current outbreak in ...