BC Centre for Disease Control is reporting 2 new cases across British Columbia.
Both of the new cases that have been reported since January 16 are from Northeast BC. That brings the region’s total number of cases to 313. 81 percent of BC’s 408 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.
-M. Popove CJDC
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