US EditionCanada has lost its measles elimination status, says Ottawa
- On Nov. 10, 2025, the Public Health Agency of Canada announced PAHO revoked Canada's measles elimination status after confirming ongoing transmission of the same strain for over one year.
- The outbreak began in New Brunswick in October 2024 when a traveller from Thailand infected guests at a wedding in Florenceville, with the first locally acquired case recorded on Oct. 27 last year, and then spread to nine provinces affecting over 5,100 cases.
- Transmission has slowed recently, but the outbreak has persisted for over 12 months, primarily within under-vaccinated communities, with Ontario and Alberta hardest-hit and sporadic cases in Manitoba and British Columbia.
- PHAC said it will coordinate with PAHO and federal, provincial and territorial partners to boost vaccination coverage, strengthen data sharing and enable better surveillance, and Canada can recover measles-free status if it follows measures from the Regional Verification Commission on measles and rubella elimination.
- Health experts last month predicted PAHO would strip Canada's status, and the United States and Mexico are also facing outbreaks of the same genotype as the Americas.
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Canada is no longer measles-free due to ongoing outbreaks of the disease, international health experts said Monday, as childhood vaccination rates decline and the highly contagious virus spreads…
Canada lost its state-of-the-art status, declared the Pan American Health Organization (Paho), after failed to stop a 12-month virus epidemic, says BBC News.
WHO Agency Withdraws Canada’s Measles Elimination Status Due to Ongoing Outbreaks
A World Health Organisation (WHO) agency has revoked Canada’s measles-free status following more than a year of cases reported in multiple provinces and territories. A “large, multi-jurisdictional outbreak of measles” since late last year led the Pan American Health Organisation (PAHO) to withdraw Canada’s measles elimination status, according to a Nov. 10 announcement from the the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC). “While transmission has s…
Canada has lost its measles-free status after nearly thirty years. According to the Pan American Health Organization, the country is failing to control a measles outbreak. Since the outbreak last October, more than 5,000 cases of measles have been reported. Alberta and Ontario have been particularly hard hit, with 1,944 and 2,392 cases, respectively. The increase is due to declining vaccination rates. According to health experts, since the coron…
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