Between 200 to 400 hundred people could have been exposed to the disease, the city's health director said.
Montreal health authorities are trying to track up to 400 people they think may have been exposed earlier in the week to the measles virus.
Measles is a highly contagious disease caused by a virus that spreads through the air and originates from the nose and throat of an infected person.Since the beginning of the year, seven cases of measles have been reported in Montreal, but the first five involved exposure to the disease outside country.
The second person infected is a health care worked who treated the child. The employee had been vaccinated against the virus but it didn’t provide the expected immunity.
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