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Measles continues to surge across Canada, but while a large majority of the population is vaccinated, infectious disease specialists say the spread could continue into sumer.

It has taken Alberta less than three months to top 500 measles cases, fuelling concerns about the speed at which the virus is ...

Alberta Health Services has issued another measles alert after people with confirmed cases of the highly-contagious disease ...

Public Health Ontario says 173 more people have been infected with measles in the province over the past week.

2:05 Rising measles cases could lead to more problems down the road Alberta has seen more than 500 cases of measles since early March, as 19 more cases of the highly contagious disease have been ...

Health officials said there is no known local spread of measles, but did note the outbreaks in neighboring North Dakota and the Canadian provinces of Alberta, British Columbia and Saskatchewan.

Alberta’s interim chief medical officer of health, confirmed that actions are being taken to expand the provincial response to the outbreak. The most recent update arrives as measles makes a ...