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Canada has logged more than 5,000 measles cases since October 2024

Two infants have died

The U.S. has reported at least 1,600 cases this year but will keep its measles-free status for now

THURSDAY, Oct. 30, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Canada may lose its measles elimination status amid a yearlong outbreak that has infected more than 5,000 people and killed two infants, health officials said this week.

The outbreak began in October 2024 in New Brunswick and has now spread across multiple provinces. It is Canada’s first continuous measles transmission in more than 25 years.

Canada eliminated measles in 1998.

“To really say that a country has lost the status, it takes 12 months of continuous transmission with the same genotype and the same strain of the virus,” Daniel Salas

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