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Ontario child under 5 dies of measles: provincial health agency (www.cbc.ca)
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A child under five years old has died of measles in Ontario, according to the province's public health agency, the first such death in more than a decade.

In a report published Thursday, Public Health Ontario said the child was not vaccinated against the highly infectious respiratory virus. It did not indicate when or where the child died, or their age.

The report shows there were no other measles-related deaths recorded in the province between Jan. 1, 2013 and this week.

Measles has been on the rise in both Ontario and elsewhere in Canada as cases increase globally, particularly in Europe, which has seen tens of thousands of infections over the last year.

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[–] HikingVet@lemmy.ca 50 points 1 month ago (15 children)

The parents should be charged with manslaughter if the child was old enough to receive the vaccine.

11 years without a death in Ontario. Now these fuckwits who think they know as much as a doctor who studied this shit are going to get more people killed.

[–] Nouveau_Burnswick@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago (6 children)

The kid was five

First measles shot (as part of MMRV) is 12 months, the second is ~18 months, but varies by province. You can get a dose as early as six months, but the child will still need to follow the standard timeline after this additional dose.

[–] eatCasserole@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

... It did not indicate when the child died or their specific age.

So we just know they were somewhere between 0 and 5.

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