Quebec 's public health director Dr. Luc Boileau is urging Quebec ers to make sure they and their children are properly vaccinated against the measles, as cases of the virus are on the rise in the province, especially in Montreal . Dr. Luc Boileau said health officials have so far counted 10 measles cases in Quebec . At least three are related to international travel, but he said a small number of cases are suspected to have been caused by community transmission.
"That's what worries us," Boileau said in a news conference Monday with Montreal's public health director, Dr. Mylène Drouin, and a microbiologist and pediatric infectious diseases specialist, Dr. Caroline Quach-Than
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