{"id":9496,"date":"2025-12-06T06:15:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T11:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=9496"},"modified":"2025-12-07T17:19:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T22:19:10","slug":"alberta-government-rejected-expert-advice-to-report-probable-measles-cases-documents-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/alberta-government-rejected-expert-advice-to-report-probable-measles-cases-documents-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Alberta government rejected expert advice to report probable measles cases, documents show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a target=\"_blank\" lang=\"en\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/canada\/alberta\/\">Alberta<\/a> government rejected expert advice to expand public reporting of <a target=\"_blank\" lang=\"en\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/topics\/measles\/\">measles<\/a> to include probable cases, despite the measure being supported by local and provincial public health officials, documents obtained by The Globe and Mail show.<\/p>\n<p>Since the outbreak began in Alberta last spring, only confirmed cases of measles have been publicly reported. New data provided through a Freedom of Information request show at least 450 probable cases of measles have also been identified in the province, bringing the total to nearly 2,500.<\/p>\n<p>These numbers provide a more accurate portrayal of a crisis that has gripped Alberta, one of the two provinces at the centre of a countrywide outbreak that lost Canada its long-held <a target=\"_blank\" lang=\"en\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/canada\/article-canada-loses-measles-elimination-status\/\">measles elimination status<\/a> last month. The new data show Alberta, not <a target=\"_blank\" lang=\"en\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/canada\/ontario\/\">Ontario<\/a> as previously understood, has the highest case count of any province, despite having a much smaller population. Ontario publicly reports probable cases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The <a target=\"_blank\" lang=\"en\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/canada\/alberta\/\">Alberta<\/a> government rejected expert advice to expand public reporting of <a target=\"_blank\" lang=\"en\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/topics\/measles\/\">measles<\/a> to include probable cases, despite the measure being supported by local and provincial public health officials, documents obtained by The Globe and Mail show.<\/p>\n<p>Since the outbreak began in Alberta last spring, only confirmed cases of measles have been publicly reported. New data provided through a Freedom of Information request show at least 450 probable cases of measles have also been identified in the province, bringing the total to nearly 2,500.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/alberta-government-rejected-expert-advice-to-report-probable-measles-cases-documents-show\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Alberta government rejected expert advice to report probable measles cases, documents show<\/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":[315,96,388,119,304],"class_list":["post-9496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-alberta","tag-canada","tag-measles","tag-ontario","tag-outbreaks","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9496","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=9496"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9501,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9496\/revisions\/9501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}