Quebec confirms 4 new cases in measles outbreak

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Quebec’s health department is warning people who may have been exposed to measles in several regions of the province to monitor for symptoms amid a new outbreak of the disease.

As of Friday, four cases have been confirmed in the province, and all are connected to an outbreak that started in December, said Marie-Pierre Blier, a communications agent with the health department.

“According to the information available to public health, these four cases are epidemiologically linked,” Blier said in a written statement Saturday. Blier said all of the confirmed cases acquired measles in the province, with the first person exposed to someone who lives outside Canada but travelled to Quebec while contagious.

Despite saying that some of the cases are in the Laurentians regions of Quebec, the small number of cases means “it is not possible to provide exact figures by region for privacy reasons,” Blier said.