A young child in Ontario has died of measles

A young child has died of measles in Ontario, the first measles death in the province in more than a decade, Public Health Ontario reports.

The child was under the age of five and was not vaccinated against the highly infectious virus, the agency’s most recent surveillance report shows.

So far this year, five children aged nine and under in Ontario have been hospitalized with a measles infection, all of whom were unimmunized. One of these five children has recently died of the infection, the report shows.

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“One dose of measles vaccine at 12 months of age or older provides more than 90 per cent protection against infection and two doses provides very close to 100 per cent protection against infection throughout childhood,” said Morris.

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