Canada loses its official "measles-free" status. The US will soon follow - Salon.com
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Canada eliminated measles in 1998 but had a major outbreak in 2025.

In the wake of a measles outbreak in Canada that has infected thousands of people over the past year, an international health agency revoked the country’s measles-free status on Nov. 10, 2025.

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      To achieve the status of measles elimination, a country must have no ongoing local transmission of the disease for at least one year. It will lose that status if it has a chain of cases that spread from person to person for more than one year.

      We’ve been heading in that direction, but we won’t have officially lost our measles-free status until the current outbreak has continued for a full year.