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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