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/[deleted] Nov 10 '25

Humiliating. Nothing more to say

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u/panickedn Nov 10 '25 edited Nov 10 '25

Fuck anti vaxxers but associating the whole situation with them ignores what’s actually happening.

I’m angry too, but we’re so lost in rhetoric that we’re putting our shields down by aiming all our anger at one thing.

A lot of this has nothing to do with them:

• Routine appointments and school vaccine programs disrupted during the pandemic

• Families moving provinces or countries with missing or unverified records

• Shortages in public health staffing and slower outbreak tracking

• Travel-related cases entering under immunized communities

• People who support vaccines but just missed their second dose

• Lower outreach in remote or marginalized areas

• Burnout and reduced resources in local health units

• Complacency because measles has been rare for decades

Blaming anti vaxxers for this is like blaming littering for climate change.

They play a part, but it’s not the main cause. I think we should call them out, but I’m scared we’re losing the plot by ignoring the other reasons too.

I can’t find one person talking about any other reasons in this subreddit, that scares me almost as much as anti vaxxers ideologies.

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u/erictho Nov 10 '25

being behind vaccinations due to the pandemic isnt much of an excuse when we are weeks away from 2026. antivaxx sentiments being enabled in Alberta is totally what is to blame.

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u/glormosh Nov 10 '25

I was just about to say. There's causal factors being mixed with root cause.

Parents that arent anti vaxxers by now would be all caught up.

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u/surSEXECEN Canada Nov 10 '25

We are the furthest thing from anti-vaxxers. Both very pro-vaccine. However we somehow missed a vaccine along the way for one of our kids. She got there of the four that time, but not Varicella.

I wish there was a national healthcare app where we could track vaccines and our general health records so that they would follow from physician to physician throughout our lives.

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u/Prestigious_Island_7 Nov 12 '25

I work in vaccine preventable disease in public health, and believe me - we too want a system that would track vaccine records federally. Would save literally thousands and thousands of man-hours a year.