B.C., Canada: 2015 Measles- Pax esposedon a flight from China

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Source: http://www.am730.ca/syn/112/69297/measles-update

Air China measles update
Vancouver, BC, Canada / (CKNW AM) AM980
Shane Woodford
March 24, 2015 01:48 pm

Two days after two people who arrived on a flight to Vancouver tested positive for measles no more cases have been detected and Vancovuer Coastal Health expects it will stay that way.

Medical Health Officer Dr. Reka Gustafson says though there are another two weeks in the incubation period she is not concerned...

...The flight in question is Air China Flight CA991 that arrived at Vancouver airport on Saturday...

 

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Source: http://www.ibtimes.com/measles-scar...r-china-passengers-after-two-students-1859302

Measles Scare In Canada: Health Officials Search For Air China Passengers After Two Students Were Contagious On Plane
By Philip Ross on March 25 2015 4:08 PM EDT

Health officials in Vancouver are scrambling to track down a list of individuals who may have been exposed to measles on a weekend flight from Beijing to British Columbia, according to local media. Authorities have contacted about half of the passengers aboard Air China Flight CA991, which arrived in Vancouver Saturday with two high school students who later tested positive for measles and would have been contagious on the plane.

"We were able to get a flight manifest ... and a list of passengers who were sitting closest to the individuals infected and we've spent time trying to reach them, as well as flights crews," Reka Gustafson of Vancouver Coastal Health told CBC News. Authorities this week warned all British Columbians to make sure they were up-to-date on their immunizations...

 

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Source: http://www.vancouversun.com/health/...by+high+school+trip+China/10939219/story.html

Two more cases of measles in B.C., tied to Burnaby high school trip to China
Fraser Health is holding an immunization clinic at Burnaby?s Carver Christian High School, which the four students attend.
Canadian Press April 2, 2015 11:46 AM

VANCOUVER - The deputy provincial health officer of British Columbia says four cases of measles have now been diagnosed and linked to a high-school trip to China.

Health officials in Metro Vancouver confirmed late last month that one boy and one girl were diagnosed with the highly contagious disease shortly after returning from a school trip over spring break.

Deputy provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry says in an email that two more cases were diagnosed on Wednesday and those people were on the same trip...

 

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Source: http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/...easles-on-flight-from-china-to-vancouver.html

Passengers exposed to measles on flight from China to Vancouver
Second flight from China to Vancouver has brought threat of measles to Canada
By: Robin Levinson King Staff Reporter, Published on Wed Apr 08 2015

For the second time in two weeks, passengers aboard a flight from China to Vancouver have been exposed to the measles virus.

One person aboard Air China Flight 991was subsequently diagnosed with measles, said a spokesperson for Vancouver Coastal Health. The flight landed in Vancouver on Saturday just after noon...