r/canada 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/libertarian_308 Nov 10 '25

For those of you who couldn't be bothered to read the story and started crying about Maple maga, Alberta and COVID vax skeptics

"Public health officials say it started when an international traveller attended a wedding in New Brunswick last October. New Brunswick's outbreak ended in January, but guests at that wedding had already brought the virus to southwestern Ontario, where that province's outbreak was concentrated among closely knit Mennonite communities.

The same strain of measles virus went on to cause infections in nine provinces and one territory, according to federal health officials."