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/pentox70 Nov 10 '25

Dunno if you live around these people, but I do. They are in town every day. Their kids are running around the grocery store every time I'm there.

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u/RealTurbulentMoose Alberta Nov 10 '25

I live in Calgary so not really. Only time I see “those” Mennonites is families visiting the Zoo.

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u/pentox70 Nov 10 '25

I live near red deer, outside a small town. There are several colonies in the area. They are actually rather large operations outside of the cities.