In what amounts to a national embarrassment on one side of the coin and a public health failure on the other, Canada has lost its measles elimination status, something it has held for 25 years.
Interior Health (IH) has confirmed additional measles cases in the Interior with infections now identified in Kamloops, Kelowna, Salmon Arm and the Nelson area.
In Gaines County, Texas, where a measles outbreak has killed one six-year-old and one adult, the measles vaccination rate among kindergarteners is just 82 per cent, according to reporting by The Atlantic. That’s a higher measles vaccination rate than children have here in B.C.