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

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

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

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 ...

Alberta's measles outbreak is now the worst recorded in nearly three decades and that has health experts raising the alarm and renewing calls for stronger messaging from the provincial government.

Doctors are urging public health officials in Ontario and Alberta to step up vaccination and messaging efforts as measles outbreaks in those provinces continue to grow. "That's the largest ...

Alberta's measles outbreak is now the worst recorded in nearly three decades and that has health experts raising the alarm and renewing calls for stronger messaging from the provincial government. The ...

2:05 Rising measles cases could lead to more problems down the road Fourteen new confirmed cases of measles over the past 24 hours means the number of cases in Alberta has now climbed to a total ...

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.