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Measles alert: Travellers may have been exposed at YVR this week
CTV News Vancouver
Published Friday, July 26, 2019 4:09PM PDT
Passengers may have been exposed to the highly contagious measles virus this week at Vancouver International Airport, according to an urgent public health alert issued Friday afternoon.
Health officials said they have confirmed yet another case of the measles in Metro Vancouver, this time in a traveller who recently returned home from a trip to the Philippines.
The patient, who is a Burnaby resident, arrived at YVR on Philippines Airlines Flight PR116 on the afternoon of Tuesday, July 23. Fraser Health said anyone who was on that plane, or in the airport's arrivals area between 4:30 and 7 p.m. that day, could have been exposed to the virus.
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Measles alert: Travellers may have been exposed at YVR this week
CTV News Vancouver
Published Friday, July 26, 2019 4:09PM PDT
Passengers may have been exposed to the highly contagious measles virus this week at Vancouver International Airport, according to an urgent public health alert issued Friday afternoon.
Health officials said they have confirmed yet another case of the measles in Metro Vancouver, this time in a traveller who recently returned home from a trip to the Philippines.
The patient, who is a Burnaby resident, arrived at YVR on Philippines Airlines Flight PR116 on the afternoon of Tuesday, July 23. Fraser Health said anyone who was on that plane, or in the airport's arrivals area between 4:30 and 7 p.m. that day, could have been exposed to the virus.
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