Infectious Diseases Conference: Infectious Diseases Society

Words Teens Dept: TORONTO - Measles cases have surged in parts of Canada and the United States this year, with cases among unvaccinated children and teens driving the high numbers, public health officials from both countries will tell a major infectious diseases conference this weekend, according to Winnipeg Free Press. An investigation into an outbreak in a high school in a town that was heavily hit by the virus found that about half of the cases were in teens who had received the recommended two doses of vaccine in childhood in other words, teens whom authorities would have expected to have been protected from the measles virus and cases of measles, once a rarity in North America, have surged in the past few years, doctors attending a medical conference this weekend will hear. A still smoldering outbreak in Quebec is the largest in the Americas in over a decade. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention But an unusual observation from a large outbreak in Quebec may raise some alarm among those who attend the conference, the annual meeting of the Infectious Diseases Society of America. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.