{"id":8792,"date":"2025-06-12T18:57:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-12T22:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=8792"},"modified":"2025-06-13T05:01:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T09:01:10","slug":"albertas-measles-outbreaks-are-now-the-worst-in-nearly-half-a-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/albertas-measles-outbreaks-are-now-the-worst-in-nearly-half-a-century\/","title":{"rendered":"Alberta\u2019s measles outbreaks are now the worst in nearly half a century"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alberta\u2019s measles surge is so dramatic, the last time case counts were higher Calgary did not have an NHL team, <em>O Canada<\/em> was not yet the official national anthem and gasoline would set you back 24&nbsp;cents a litre.<\/p>\n<p>The province reported 29 more cases on Thursday, bringing the total since the outbreaks began in March to 868. That pushes the province past the levels seen during a surge in 1986, when 854 cases were reported.<\/p>\n<p>A higher case count <a target=\"_blank\" lang=\"en\" href=\"https:\/\/open.alberta.ca\/dataset\/09ff0f40-1cfc-48fd-b888-4357104c3c32\/resource\/c5ceca04-ccda-4811-9ed0-03a3cbe8c0fb\/download\/7019844-notifiable-disease-incidence-1919-2014.pdf\">hasn\u2019t been recorded since 1979<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alberta\u2019s measles surge is so dramatic, the last time case counts were higher Calgary did not have an NHL team, <em>O Canada<\/em> was not yet the official national anthem and gasoline would set you back 24&nbsp;cents a litre.<\/p>\n<p>The province reported 29 more cases on Thursday, bringing the total since the outbreaks began in March to 868. That pushes the province past the levels seen during a surge in 1986, when 854 cases were reported.<\/p>\n<p>A higher case count <a target=\"_blank\" lang=\"en\" href=\"https:\/\/open.alberta.ca\/dataset\/09ff0f40-1cfc-48fd-b888-4357104c3c32\/resource\/c5ceca04-ccda-4811-9ed0-03a3cbe8c0fb\/download\/7019844-notifiable-disease-incidence-1919-2014.pdf\">hasn\u2019t been recorded since 1979<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/albertas-measles-outbreaks-are-now-the-worst-in-nearly-half-a-century\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Alberta\u2019s measles outbreaks are now the worst in nearly half a century<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[315,388,15],"class_list":["post-8792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-alberta","tag-measles","tag-vaccines","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8792"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8796,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8792\/revisions\/8796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}