Canada loses measles elimination status amid outbreak

The UN’s regional health organization has informed Canada that it “no longer holds measles elimination status,” Ottawa said Monday, a major setback due to a year-long outbreak fueled largely by vaccine skepticism.Canada was formally declared measles-free in 1998, an achievement credited to years of consistently high childhood vaccination rates.But an outbreak that began in the eastern part of the country in October 2024 has spread nationwide, notably among certain groups of Me