Measles is surging in Alberta. Which vaccine-preventable disease could be next?
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Doctors and scientists worry Alberta’s measles outbreaks could signal the start of a new era when other dangerous infectious diseases of the past could re-emerge and pose new health threats.
The province is battling its worst wave of measles cases in nearly half a century and there is no end in sight.
As of Friday, a total of 879 measles cases had been reported in the province since the outbreaks began in March.
It’s one of the first to re-emerge, experts say, because it is so highly contagious and requires very high vaccination rates (about 95 per cent) for population level protection.
Provincial data shows in 2024 just 68.1 per cent of Alberta two-year-olds were up to date with two doses of the measles vaccine.
Measles is surging in Alberta. Which vaccine-preventable disease could be next? | CBC News
Doctors and scientists worry Alberta's measles outbreaks could signal the start of a new era when other dangerous infectious diseases of the past could re-emerge and pose new health threats.
CBC (www.cbc.ca)
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Doctors and scientists worry Alberta’s measles outbreaks could signal the start of a new era when other dangerous infectious diseases of the past could re-emerge and pose new health threats.
The province is battling its worst wave of measles cases in nearly half a century and there is no end in sight.
As of Friday, a total of 879 measles cases had been reported in the province since the outbreaks began in March.
It’s one of the first to re-emerge, experts say, because it is so highly contagious and requires very high vaccination rates (about 95 per cent) for population level protection.
Provincial data shows in 2024 just 68.1 per cent of Alberta two-year-olds were up to date with two doses of the measles vaccine.
Measles is surging in Alberta. Which vaccine-preventable disease could be next? | CBC News
Doctors and scientists worry Alberta's measles outbreaks could signal the start of a new era when other dangerous infectious diseases of the past could re-emerge and pose new health threats.
CBC (www.cbc.ca)
I worked in children’s medicine in Alberta in the early 2000’s where I was privy to large numbers of Alberta’s kids health information. It was disturbing then how many were unvaccinated. I can’t imagine what it’s like now twenty five years later.
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Doctors and scientists worry Alberta’s measles outbreaks could signal the start of a new era when other dangerous infectious diseases of the past could re-emerge and pose new health threats.
The province is battling its worst wave of measles cases in nearly half a century and there is no end in sight.
As of Friday, a total of 879 measles cases had been reported in the province since the outbreaks began in March.
It’s one of the first to re-emerge, experts say, because it is so highly contagious and requires very high vaccination rates (about 95 per cent) for population level protection.
Provincial data shows in 2024 just 68.1 per cent of Alberta two-year-olds were up to date with two doses of the measles vaccine.
Measles is surging in Alberta. Which vaccine-preventable disease could be next? | CBC News
Doctors and scientists worry Alberta's measles outbreaks could signal the start of a new era when other dangerous infectious diseases of the past could re-emerge and pose new health threats.
CBC (www.cbc.ca)
Not vaccinating your kids should be considered child abuse and be handled as a crime and the kids absolutely must be removed.
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Doctors and scientists worry Alberta’s measles outbreaks could signal the start of a new era when other dangerous infectious diseases of the past could re-emerge and pose new health threats.
The province is battling its worst wave of measles cases in nearly half a century and there is no end in sight.
As of Friday, a total of 879 measles cases had been reported in the province since the outbreaks began in March.
It’s one of the first to re-emerge, experts say, because it is so highly contagious and requires very high vaccination rates (about 95 per cent) for population level protection.
Provincial data shows in 2024 just 68.1 per cent of Alberta two-year-olds were up to date with two doses of the measles vaccine.
Measles is surging in Alberta. Which vaccine-preventable disease could be next? | CBC News
Doctors and scientists worry Alberta's measles outbreaks could signal the start of a new era when other dangerous infectious diseases of the past could re-emerge and pose new health threats.
CBC (www.cbc.ca)
With her at the helm, all of them.
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Doctors and scientists worry Alberta’s measles outbreaks could signal the start of a new era when other dangerous infectious diseases of the past could re-emerge and pose new health threats.
The province is battling its worst wave of measles cases in nearly half a century and there is no end in sight.
As of Friday, a total of 879 measles cases had been reported in the province since the outbreaks began in March.
It’s one of the first to re-emerge, experts say, because it is so highly contagious and requires very high vaccination rates (about 95 per cent) for population level protection.
Provincial data shows in 2024 just 68.1 per cent of Alberta two-year-olds were up to date with two doses of the measles vaccine.
Measles is surging in Alberta. Which vaccine-preventable disease could be next? | CBC News
Doctors and scientists worry Alberta's measles outbreaks could signal the start of a new era when other dangerous infectious diseases of the past could re-emerge and pose new health threats.
CBC (www.cbc.ca)
Covid again, after vaccination plummets due to pricing
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Doctors and scientists worry Alberta’s measles outbreaks could signal the start of a new era when other dangerous infectious diseases of the past could re-emerge and pose new health threats.
The province is battling its worst wave of measles cases in nearly half a century and there is no end in sight.
As of Friday, a total of 879 measles cases had been reported in the province since the outbreaks began in March.
It’s one of the first to re-emerge, experts say, because it is so highly contagious and requires very high vaccination rates (about 95 per cent) for population level protection.
Provincial data shows in 2024 just 68.1 per cent of Alberta two-year-olds were up to date with two doses of the measles vaccine.
Measles is surging in Alberta. Which vaccine-preventable disease could be next? | CBC News
Doctors and scientists worry Alberta's measles outbreaks could signal the start of a new era when other dangerous infectious diseases of the past could re-emerge and pose new health threats.
CBC (www.cbc.ca)
Fuck each and every anti-vaxxer that got us to this place.
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With her at the helm, all of them.
Polio would be really bad. I shudder to think about scarlet fever.
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Fuck each and every anti-vaxxer that got us to this place.
I wouldn’t. You could catch something from them.
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I wouldn’t. You could catch something from them.
- straight truth!
