AHS confirms cases of measles in Edmonton, public exposure possible in two locations

Alberta Health Services says it has confirmed multiple cases of measles in the Edmonton area. The health authority is warning that public exposure to the highly contagious disease may have occurred at two Edmonton locations last week.

AHS says those who attended the Belle Rive Medicentres Family Health Care Clinic in the north end on Wednesday afternoon could have been exposed.

Anyone who attended the Stollery Children's Hospital's emergency department late Friday evening may have been exposed as well.

AHS says individuals who were potentially exposed and who were born after 1970 and have less than two doses of the measles vaccine should monitor themselves for symptoms.

It says symptoms include a high fever and a red spot-like rash that begins on the face and appears a few days following the onset of a fever.