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Transplant recipients and other immunocompromised people worry about measles exposure | Globalnews.ca

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People who are immunocompromised cannot get immunized against measles because the vaccine contains a weakened version of the virus that teaches the body how to fight the disease.

The number of measles cases in Ontario has surpassed 1,000 , with 95 new cases since last week .

Alberta 's case count was 122 as of Wednesday , with the province noting 14 were “known to be communicable” Quebec declared its outbreak over earlier this week .

Janna Shapiro , a post-doctoral fellow at the Centre for Vaccine Preventable Diseases affiliated with the University of Toronto , is researching the risk of live vaccines for immunocompromised patients.

Shapiro is also looking at other groups, such as kids treated with a new group of drugs called biologics for inflammatory bowel disease, that she says didn’t exist or did not exist before measles was eliminated in Canada .

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