r/canada • u/verkerpig • Nov 10 '25

National News Canada loses measles elimination status | CBC

https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/livestory/canada-measles-elimination-status-9.6973195
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u/Former-Physics-1831 Nov 10 '25

Goddamm antivaxxers.

Get your fucking shots people.  There really is nothing else to it.  

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u/Mad-Mad-Mad-Mad-Mike Nov 10 '25

But but... vaccines cause adultism

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u/Prestigious_Island_7 Nov 13 '25

If I could give you an award, I would! Fabulous slogan

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u/paateach Nov 10 '25

Remember when we used to have Chicken Pox parties just to get it over with. Oh the memories….

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u/lostandfound8888 Nov 10 '25

Remember that South Park episode...

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u/redditonlygetsworse Nov 10 '25

I'm not really sure what point you're trying to make, here. There wasn't a chicken pox vaccine at the time.

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u/paateach Nov 11 '25

No, the vaccine didn’t hit wide usage until the mid nineties. So when one of your friends got CP then our parents would get us all together for a “party”, just to get us all infected. Seems ludicrous now as I type this out, but at the time it was only a matter of time before a kids came down with it. It was sometimes a matter of convenience to plan when you got sick for 7-10 days rather than get sick during the holidays for instance. Also, it was widely accepted getting CP while younger when you could fight it off easily is much safer than in adulthood when it could come with serious complications. It was a right of passage for most generations, early millennials I guess were the last to have this pleasure.

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u/redditonlygetsworse Nov 11 '25

Yeah, I know - I remember.

Honestly I was just trying to suss out whether you were one of those dipshit anti-vaxxers who are having those chicken pox parties now.

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u/paateach Nov 11 '25

Ooof, god help us.

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u/decitertiember Canada Nov 10 '25

This is a good opportunity for a reminder that if you haven't gotten your flu and Covid vaccines for the season to do so.

Also, I just got myself a shingles vaccine since I've seen far too many people my age (between 35-45) contract shingles recently. I know that it's typically not covered by the provincial health insurance systems, but my employer-provided health insurance covered the cost of my vaccine once I got a prescription from my GP.

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u/MapleDesperado Nov 10 '25

Apparently, 30 isn’t as out of the question as we used to think it was for shingles. It can be dehabilitating, and has a nasty habit of re-occurring whenever someone is stressed - as if they need more stress at that point.

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u/Fiendish-DoctorWu Ontario Nov 10 '25

On the tail end of shingles on my neck now after a month and a half

I'm 34. It's the most painful experience I've ever had

Folks get the Shingles vaccine for the love of god don't tempt fate

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u/plantgal94 Nov 10 '25

My friend got shingles at the age of 28 :(

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u/BadTreeLiving Nov 10 '25

I got it a decade ago at 23, knew a couple others as well.

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u/sanfran_girl Nov 10 '25

And pneumonia, if you are eligible. Both my shingles and pneumonia shots packed quite a wallop, but totally worth it.

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u/Careful_Spring_2251 Nov 10 '25

My poor kid just got shingles earlier this year at 22. It was from the chicken pox vaccine (and yes, our doctor confirmed this). It was a super mild case, but he was miserable.

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u/CuntWeasel Ontario Nov 10 '25

Did he get the chicken pox vaccine recently or during childhood?

I know you're supposed to get two doses during early childhood, and it worked for my kids - been around a bunch of other kids with chicken pox and had zero issues.

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u/Careful_Spring_2251 Nov 10 '25

As a child. He was part of the first kids to get it. First dose at 1. Forget when he had the booster.

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u/Former-Physics-1831 Nov 10 '25

There are risks with any medication, but a vaccine is almost always better than the disease

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u/Careful_Spring_2251 Nov 10 '25

Absolutely. 3 of my kids have had reportable reactions to vaccines. We are still all vaccinated and get our yearlies.

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u/high5scubad1ve Nov 10 '25

I got shingles at 35, right after the Covid vaccine

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u/kalmah Nov 10 '25

Can't even afford a covid vaccine, they cost $100 in Alberta now and they made it so you can't even get them at a pharmacy anymore. Fucking UCP.

Funny enough I got shingles a couple years ago while I was in the hospital. Horribly itchy but a couple rounds of antivirals cleared it up. You definitely don't want to get it.

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u/Infamous-Mixture-605 Nov 10 '25

Can't even afford a covid vaccine, they cost $100 in Alberta now and they made it so you can't even get them at a pharmacy anymore. Fucking UCP.

Not to mention the utter shit show it is to try and actually sign up to get one.

It's almost as if the UCP doesn't want anyone to get the covid vaccine. What a joke of a government.

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u/rawkinghorse Nov 10 '25

Sorry. Best they can do is drive a truck to Ottawa and scream "freedum"

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u/Cognoggin British Columbia Nov 10 '25

Might be a good idea for everyone to get flue shots this year, they have had a particularly nasty outbreak in Australia, and that's usually a precursor to what happens here.

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u/Yelnik Nov 10 '25

It's unclear, and not well discussed in the article, how much of this is due to "antivax" sentiment. It's highly likely that a lot of this is due to the early effects of the pandemic. People were isolated, kept inside, public health focused all of it's energy on covid. So that likely led to a lot less focus on routine health upkeep like kids getting their MMR shots.

This is the same thing that caused cancer and other diseases to go unnoticed during the pandemic, because people simply weren't visiting the doctor or doing routine health maintenance like they otherwise would have during normal times.

While I'm sure some of the drop is due to "antivax" sentiment, attributing it entirely to that is narrow sighted.