Canada: 2013 Measles cases

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Source: http://www.northumberlandview.ca/index.php?module=news&type=user&func=display&sid=23368#.UedFqlNpehc

LifeView: Public Health Notice: Measles
Contributed by admin on Jul 17, 2013 - 07:54 PM

OTTAWA, ONTARIO--(Marketwired - July 17, 2013) -

Why you should take note

Since the beginning of the year, nearly 30 cases of measles have been identified in six Canadian provinces: British Columbia, Alberta, Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island. At this time in 2012, six cases had been reported to the Public Health Agency of Canada...

 

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Re: Canada: 2013 Measles cases

Source: http://metronews.ca/news/hamilton/756595/measles-spreading-to-adults-with-no-immunity/


August 2, 2013 Updated: August 2, 2013 | 1:17 pm
Measles spreading to adults with no immunity
By Staff Metroland News Service

A big barrier to eliminating measles in Canada is a group of adults too young to have been exposed to the highly contagious disease but too old to have fully benefitted from vaccination programs...

...?The problem is youngish adults,? said Taha. ?We?ve got this population out there not old enough to have had measles as kids but not young enough to be captured in immunization programs. That?s going to pull down the numbers for herd immunity.?

Those with the least immunity are born roughly between 1970 and 1985. They?re unlikely to have been vaccinated or exposed to measles.

Members of the group born between 1985 and 1996 or thereabouts were often inadequately immunized, with one shot instead of two...