Health advisory issued after mid-week measles exposure at Calgary airport

A health advisory was issued for measles exposure at Calgary airport, as the provincial measles count continues to rise.

There’s another health advisory about measles exposure at Calgary International Airport as measles numbers continue to climb across the province.

Another 17 cases were reported Friday, including one in Calgary, bringing the province-wide total to 1,122.

More than 900 of those cases have come in the past two months.

A new advisory said an infectious person flew into Calgary International Airport from Cancun on June 22.

That’s in addition to another infectious traveller who went through the airport Wednesday morning.

Travellers at the airport expressed concern at the increase in measles exposure.

“I think our area is actually one of the places where there’s less vaccines, where we live north of Brooks and Taber area,” said Jaclinn McNiven. “I just wish that people would realize that it was one of the deadliest child killers before we had the vaccine.”

“I know other people are worried about the vaccines but it’s been around I don’t know how many years, hundreds of years I thought,” said Holly Schmaltz, “but I think it’s (vaccines) pretty safe -- and I’d like to see that happen so people don’t get sick.”