Ontario reports 95 new measles cases, sending total above 1,000 since outbreak began – CTV
April 24, 2025
Public Health Ontario is reporting 95 new measles cases since last week, bringing the total number of people infected past 1,000.
In its report released Thursday, the agency said as of Wednesday, a total of 1,020 people have had measles since the province’s outbreak began last October
The report said the ongoing rise in cases is “due to continued exposures and transmission among individuals who have not been immunized.”
Many of the new cases continue to be reported in southwestern Ontario and three-quarters of the total measles cases in the province have been infants, children and teens, the report said.
Dr. Sarah Wilson, a medical epidemiologist at Public Health Ontario, said in an interview there doesn’t appear to be a trend of infection rates going up or down, since the number of new cases is “broadly consistent with what we’ve seen in the last several weeks.”
“We’re in this sort of roughly 100 cases per week terrain, and of course that’s 100 cases too many,” Wilson said.
