Year in Review – February:
Shoppers had to take extra precautions after a measles outbreak was traced to Toys R Us in Lansdowne Centre in February.
The store’s employees and customers were warned by health officials about being exposed to the disease, a week after a person infected with measles spent two eight-hour days at the store.
It was unclear whether or not the person infected was an employee.
Vancouver Coastal Health informed the public that two new confirmed cases of measles, including the Richmond one, brought the total Metro Vancouver outbreak to 13 cases.
The Richmond News reported how, just outside the Toys R Us entrance, at the Lansdowne food court, people eating with their children said the exposure risk made them nervous.
Measles patients had also visited other locations in Richmond, including Richmond Centre, Dave’s Fish and Chips and the Starbucks in Steveston and at YVR. One person known to have been infected also rode the Canada Line.
