{"id":9403,"date":"2025-11-10T16:32:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T21:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=9403"},"modified":"2025-11-11T04:23:26","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T09:23:26","slug":"canada-loses-measles-elimination-status-as-does-the-entire-americas-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/canada-loses-measles-elimination-status-as-does-the-entire-americas-region\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada loses measles elimination status \u2014 as does the entire Americas region"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Canada has formally lost its measles elimination status, the country\u2019s public health agency <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\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">announced Monday<\/a>, meaning all of the Americas have lost that status as well.<\/p>\n<p>The decision, which was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/11\/03\/measles-elimination-status-canada-united-states-mexico\/\" target=\"_blank\" lang=\"en\">widely expected<\/a>, comes after a meeting last week where an expert committee of the Pan American Health Organization determined that a large measles outbreak that began in Canada in October 2024 was still ongoing, more than 12 months after it started.<\/p>\n<p>Canada\u2019s loss of measles elimination status has reverberations for the Americas, the only region of the WHO that has ever achieved measles-elimination status. When even one country in a region loses measles-elimination status, the entire region loses it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis loss represents a setback of course. But it is also reversible,\u201d Jarbas Barbosa, director of PAHO, the regional office for the Americas of the World Health Organization, said at a news conference Monday confirming the decision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canada has formally lost its measles elimination status, the country\u2019s public health agency <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\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">announced Monday<\/a>, meaning all of the Americas have lost that status as well.<\/p>\n<p>The decision, which was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/11\/03\/measles-elimination-status-canada-united-states-mexico\/\" target=\"_blank\" lang=\"en\">widely expected<\/a>, comes after a meeting last week where an expert committee of the Pan American Health Organization determined that a large measles outbreak that began in Canada in October 2024 was still ongoing, more than 12 months after it started.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/canada-loses-measles-elimination-status-as-does-the-entire-americas-region\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Canada loses measles elimination status \u2014 as does the entire Americas region<\/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":[81,96,388,130,15,283],"class_list":["post-9403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-anti-vaxxers","tag-canada","tag-measles","tag-science-denial","tag-vaccines","tag-world-health-organization","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9403","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=9403"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9406,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9403\/revisions\/9406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}