Measles data from the World Health Organization show that Canada has half the number of confirmed cases as the United States, despite having a population only about one-tenth the size of its neighbour.
WHO says 47,459 measles cases have been confirmed across the Americas as of July 18, which is three times higher than the total reported cases all of last year in the region.
The United States has 2,260 of those cases, while Canada has confirmed 1,107.
The WHO says the disease has claimed 45 lives so far this year in the Americas, largely in Guatemala and Mexico.
It says in an alert that the Americas need to strengthen their vaccination, surveillance and rapid outbreak response measures amid rising measles cases across the region.
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“Measles leaves no room for complacency. We know how to stop it: achieving high vaccination coverage, detecting suspected cases early, and responding rapidly to interrupt chains of transmission,” said Daniel Salas, the executive manager of WHO’s regional office for the Americas called the Pan American Health Organization, in a news release.
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“Every outbreak exposes immunity gaps that must be urgently addressed, particularly among children, under-vaccinated communities, and populations with limited access to health services.”
PAHO said North and South America are seeing their highest number of confirmed cases in more than two decades.
Roughly 186,000 measles cases have been reported worldwide as of July. That’s a 12 per cent increase compared with the same period last year.
The places that are populated in Canada tend to have a similar population density as the US, so transmission rates are similar. Simple as
@Elizabeth.
Listen,Liz. It is clear by your statement regarding Poilievre that you are spending way too much time on Social Media educating yourself with Leftist Propaganda. It’s time for you to get off the Internet, put your big girl pants on and think for yourself instead of letting the Liberal Party tell you what to think.
You can do it,I know you can.
Its all the immigrants that came over that are not vaccinated, sorry but not sorry. They are the problem.
So let’s get this straight. 180,000 cases worldwide. 50,000 in “The Americas”. 2000 in the US and 1000 (less than 1%) in Canada.
And vaccine hesitancy in the US and Canada is the problem? Rigghht…
So now it’s a crime to be “hesitant” to put a foreign substance in your body? What ever happened to pausing to think about something? We all do it at the grocery store – read the label and make a choice about what we want to ingest. Why do people get so reactive when it’s a drug?
None of us can see into the future. We all make choices that we think are best for us and our children. Some of them end up being wrong. Others being right. It’s called life.
Imagine you walk up to a table and see a revolver on it. Is it a good decision to put it up to your head and the pull the trigger? What if you saw someone just do it, and they were fine? What if someone else told you they checked the gun? What if others were giving you free donuts to do it? What if others were yelling at you and calling you a dullard or far-right? What they claim that somehow others will die if you don’t do it?
In today’s world, I’m vilified for wanting to check the chambers, and even more so if I think I see a bullet.
@Groovy Aardvark
Same if the child has an adverse event from said vaccine? Or what if they transition their child and the child has regret later in life? Or is it only when parents choose a different path than you?
Tragic that the Poilievre conservatives support vaccine hesitation.
Canada has twice the third world immigrants than the USA. Those people just don’t have the access to vaccines. Instead of Canada sending money for gender studies in those countries, Canada should be shipping vaccines.
This is disgraceful. Vaccination works. These people are putting lives in danger for a failing belief system.
Wow
The pathetic little trolls have come out hard for this one
Why isn’t Poilievre coming out to support vaccines? That would convince his base who are vaccine resistant to protect their children and others.
Good to hear, and watch the autism rate drop…
If a parent refuses to vaccinate their child and the child is harmed by an otherwise preventative disease then the parent should be charged with criminal negligence, and if the child dies then the charge should be elevated to manslaughter. Canada has no duty to accommodate the ignorance and idiotic conspiracy theories of the anti-vaccine dullards.
“The United States has 2,260 of those cases, while Canada has confirmed 1,107.”
This would mean that there are far more cases per capita in Canada than in the US.
Are you posting disinformation from the shamed WHO again? Try to find something we can believe. – If it is from WHO then it is dangerous nonsense.
The WHO tossed their credibility away long ago