Ontario School Safety calls for 'urgent action' to combat measles surge

Ontario School Safety calls for urgent action to combat measles surge

Organization asking provincial government to fund 'much-needed' air quality improvements in schools

Ontario School Safety calls for 'urgent action' to combat measles surge

As of April 17, Public Health Ontario reports 925 measles cases in the province, more than five times the number of cases than total number of cases over last 12 years

Anti-vax conspiracies fuel Canada’s measles crisis › Sunny South News

Falling vaccination rates and political silence are fuelling Canada’s growing measles outbreak. Measles, declared eradicated in Canada in 1998, is making a big comeback in several provinces and around the world. The situation has become so urgent in Alberta that Dr. Mark Joffe, the province’s most recent chief medical officer of health, gave in to pressure from prominent health officials and broke his longstanding silence on the topic. He issued…