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| Valerie Jaeger MOH |
The Niagara medical officer of health Dr. Valerie Jaeger says she fully expects there will more cases of measles before the current outbreak runs its course. There are 17 known cases in Ontario, six in Niagara and 11 in the GTA. People are being urged to have children vaccinated as soon as possible, especially if they may have been exposed to others with the disease. Four schools are targeted for such work in Niagara: Saint Michael Catholic High School, and Our Lady of Mount Carmel Catholic Elementary School, the Boys and Girls Club, and Lighthouse Church of God. Four of the confirmed cases in Niagara are said to be in one family but Dr. Jaeger said her duty as a doctor permitted her to say only that the patients are closely linked. She revealed that one of the Niagara patients had traveled to Toronto when the first cases surfaced there, and that testing reveals the strain of measles in Niagara and Toronto are in the same family.
