Canada has officially lost its measles elimination status, Health Canada announced Monday, with cases continuing to climb across the country including, notably, in northeast B.C.

That’s where all nine of B.C.’s currently active cases are clustered, according to the B.C. Centre for Disease Control’s (BCCDC) latest report . It’s also where 273 of the province’s 360 confirmed and probable measles cases for all of 2025 have come from.

Across Canada, B.C.'s total makes up about seven per cent of the more than 5,100 cases reported since the start of the year.

Ontario has seen the greatest outbreak with 2,393 cases, followed by Alberta with 1,946 cases.

There were 29 new confirmed and probable measles cases reported in B.C. between Oct. 30 and Nov. 6, according to the BCCDC.

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