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The virus is spreading in insular Mennonite communities. But the broader population is vulnerable as vaccine rates have ...
Quelling the spread of measles involves immunization campaigns and public health protocols, but Tina Meggison says it also ...
Some doctors in Alberta have criticized officials for not declaring a health emergency in the western province where measles ...
On Wednesday, AHS issued a warning about potential measles exposure near the Edmonton Airport and at an IHOP restaurant on Calgary Trail. As of Wednesday afternoon, there are a total of 1,694 ...
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Opinion: A rash of bad judgment

There’s a lot of truth to that. But it’s not the whole truth. The illness isn’t nearly as scary as polio or smallpox, which ...
Alberta is home to just under five million people, while the United States population is more than 341 million.
Alberta doctors say there is no doubt the measles outbreak in the province is an epidemic, even if the government has not said it is.
Although measles has been declared eliminated in most of the developing countries including Canada since 1998, the country is facing its worst measles outbreak. The number of cases have ...
Alberta has surpassed the United States in confirmed measles cases this year, reporting 1,314 infections since early March.
Now Canada is the only western country listed among the top 10 with measles outbreaks, according to CDC data, ranking at number eight. Alberta, the province at the epicentre of the current outbreak, ...
Another outbreak in Alberta, Canada, has sickened 1,472 as of Tuesday. And the Mexican state of Chihuahua had 3,296 measles cases and 10 deaths as of Tuesday, according to data from the state ...
AHS said it has been notified of a person with confirmed measles who visited two locations in Nisku and one in south Edmonton ...