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Alberta surpasses U.S. in confirmed measles cases with more than 1,300 since March
ALBERTA, CANADA, JUL 14 – Alberta has reported 1,314 measles cases in 2024, surpassing the U.S. total despite a 55% rise in vaccinations since March, officials said.
- Alberta has surpassed the United States in confirmed measles cases, with 1,314 cases since March.
- The U.S. has reported 1,288 cases so far this year across 39 states, with 3 deaths and 162 hospitalizations.
- An immunology professor at the University of Calgary attributed Alberta's high number of cases to low vaccination rates.
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Measles resurgents in Canada, a disease whose eradication had been declared in the country in 1998. The condition has reached provinces such as Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec and New Brunswick. However, the situation is particularly sensitive in Alberta. Health authorities have since the beginning of March accounted for 1,314 cases in this province of western Canada. The United States has recorded 1,288 in the same period, while the pop…
More than 1300 cases have been confirmed since March, and this is not surprising given the vaccination rate, according to one expert.
Alberta has more confirmed cases of measles than the United States as a whole, according to the latest government data.
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