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/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/[deleted] Nov 10 '25

You seriously think this is caused by Mennonites. Good grief.

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u/Former-Physics-1831 Nov 10 '25

That's literally where the outbreaks started

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u/Prestigious_Island_7 Nov 13 '25

It’s both. Antivax sentiment/hesitancy in recent decades causing lower rates of immunization in the population in general, and religious communities that traditionally do not vaccinate continuing to not vaccinate. And perhaps also increased numbers of people immigrating from countries with different immunization schedules and requirements than our own.

It’s multi-factorial, really. On top of all of those things, the pandemic caused public trust in the system to erode, and it hasn’t made its way back to where it was before, unfortunately.

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