The BC Centre for Disease Control is reporting 11 new cases of the measles across British Columbia.
Once again, all of the new cases are from Northeast BC, bringing the regions total number of cases for the season to 325. 81 percent of BC’s 400 cases are from the Northeast.
Health officials continue to urge residents to get vaccinated against the highly contagious virus.
Most people in Canada are immune to measles due to vaccination or previous infection. However, the prevalence of the disease has been increasing in recent years as vaccination rates have dropped.
In B.C., the measles vaccination rate among seven-year-olds was 72.4 per cent in 2023, the latest year for which data is available. That’s down from a rate of 90.9 per cent a decade earlier.
With files from Ian Holliday CTV News Vancouver
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