{"id":9397,"date":"2025-11-10T11:02:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T16:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=9397"},"modified":"2025-11-14T01:58:35","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T06:58:35","slug":"canada-officially-loses-its-measles-elimination-status","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/canada-officially-loses-its-measles-elimination-status\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada officially loses its measles elimination status"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Canada has been stripped of its measles elimination status after failing to interrupt transmission within one year of an outbreak that continues to spread in parts of the country.<\/p>\n<p>The Public Health Agency of Canada said Monday it was notified by The Pan American Health Organization, a regional arm of the World Health Organization, that Canada lost its designation \u2013 an accomplishment it held for 27&nbsp;years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile transmission has slowed recently, the outbreak has persisted for over 12&nbsp;months, primarily within under-vaccinated communities,\u201d the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.canada.ca\/en\/public-health\/news\/2025\/11\/statement-from-the-public-health-agency-of-canada-on-canadas-measles-elimination-status.html\" target=\"_blank\" lang=\"en\">statement<\/a> said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canada has been stripped of its measles elimination status after failing to interrupt transmission within one year of an outbreak that continues to spread in parts of the country.<\/p>\n<p>The Public Health Agency of Canada said Monday it was notified by The Pan American Health Organization, a regional arm of the World Health Organization, that Canada lost its designation \u2013 an accomplishment it held for 27&nbsp;years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile transmission has slowed recently, the outbreak has persisted for over 12&nbsp;months, primarily within under-vaccinated communities,\u201d the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.canada.ca\/en\/public-health\/news\/2025\/11\/statement-from-the-public-health-agency-of-canada-on-canadas-measles-elimination-status.html\" target=\"_blank\" lang=\"en\">statement<\/a> said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/canada-officially-loses-its-measles-elimination-status\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Canada officially loses its measles elimination status<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[315,83,96,282,388,73,119,258,51,15,283],"class_list":["post-9397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-alberta","tag-british-columbia","tag-canada","tag-manitoba","tag-measles","tag-new-brunswick","tag-ontario","tag-public-health-agency-of-canada","tag-united-states","tag-vaccines","tag-world-health-organization","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9397","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=9397"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9399,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9397\/revisions\/9399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}