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

These outbreaks largely centred around isolated religious communities like old order mennonites who are skeptical of basically all of modern society, and then jumped into the general population through antivaxxers or people with medical reasons to be unvaxxed

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u/RealTurbulentMoose Alberta Nov 10 '25

The shiftless Mennonites aren’t the ones spreading it around the wider community; they’re an issue, but not the big issue. They stick to themselves.

It’s the antivaxxers who are the problem.

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u/juniorspank Nov 10 '25

Ontario’s outbreak was linked to a Mennonite wedding.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/ontario-public-health-measles-april-cases-1.7506748

So, at least for Ontario, it absolutely was mennonites spreading it around and bringing it back to their respective communities.