Friesen emphasized that the last thing they want is for the public to panic, which is why they are urging vaccinations more than ever now as an added layer of protection especially for young children.
Dr Laura Friesen, Acting Dep Director of Public Health and Wellness
"One case of measles is considered an outbreak, because of the contagiousness of measles and because measles was eliminated in the Americas, one case of considered identified in a country is considered an outbreak so when we have a case of measles then we have an outbreak."
"We are not, we are not encouraging he public to panic we are encouraging the public to get vaccinated because the vaccines are highly effective they are safe they work well they are available and so what we want to do is we want to motivate everyone to get that, that in place check your vaccination cards if you have one dose come in and get your second dose, if you don't know if you've ever been vaccinated, come in and get a dose of vaccine so we are encouraging everyone to take action, measles is like I said it is very contagious and we are a small country so a lot of our outbreaks are driven by other countries and their populations so we cannot necessarily control what happens in Mexico and the US and Guatemala and Canada but we can make sure that we are vaccinated so that when these cases do come our we come in contact in these countries that we would not bring the disease home with us."
