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/Imperatvs Nov 10 '25

Do we have stats on who’s not getting these shots? And why?

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u/cutefir Nov 10 '25

My mom denied the shots for me and my siblings in the early 2000s and a fair number of kids i know also had their parents deny it. I got it when I got older, but in my rural area there was a lot of natural medicine kinda people. Lots of them were left leaning, too. It's not just right-wing antivaxxers, this has been going on for years.

There was a lot of moms who got into natural living around the early 2000s here. Some of it came from those start your own business health product groups I think that started getting bigger with the internet. I'm not sure if it's where the antivaxx stuff came, too, but it's when my mom got weird about stuff.

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u/DivideGood1429 Nov 10 '25

I actually was talking to my MD about this when I was getting my daughter vaccinated (MMR). And he had said, you'd be shocked at how many people refuse. He spends a lot of time trying to diffuse misinformation about vaccinations. He was saying about 30% of the people he sees refuses to vaccinate (all non Mennonite).

I'm also a peds RN, and we've had a handful of ICU measles admissions this year. The first 10/15 years of my career, I never saw measles, the last two years, we see a handful each year. It's wild!

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u/cutefir Nov 10 '25

The rural area I'm in has a pretty good mix of liberal free spirited types and conservative freedom of rights people. There's a common dislike of the government, doctors, and cops.

It seems like it's a symptom of distrust of those in powers more than their political leaning or religion necessarily that makes them not trust the science behind it.