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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 ...

Alberta is grappling with a significant measles outbreak, reporting 326 cases since March, predominantly affecting young ...

Scaling Alberta’s population to match that of ... Despite being one of the first provinces to declare a measles outbreak, Quebec was also the first to announce that the outbreak was over in ...

Kansas logged eight more cases of measles in a week, as state health officials try to tamp down an multi-county outbreak that ...

Canada is having the worst measles outbreak in a quarter-century, said Dr. Lynora Saxinger, an infectious diseases specialist at the University of Alberta, noting that Ontario alone has more than ...