Vancouver Coastal Health says it's facing an "outbreak" of measles with nine cases in the city this month. The number of confirmed cases more than doubled from four earlier on Friday, when the health authority said all the infections involved three French schools. Medical health officer Dr. Althea Hayden says most of the new confirmed cases are linked to École Jules-Verne, a French-language high school in South Vancouver, reported CBC News. This comes after a measles outbreak that began last month in neighbouring Washington state. Officials say 47 of the 53 confirmed cases are people who were not immunized against the highly contagious virus.

Source: Huffington Post February 16, 2019 05:37 UTC