A Medical Officer of Health for Southern Health-Sante Sud says Canada regaining its measles elimination status comes down to immunizing those who aren't protected.

Earlier this week, we learned that the Pan American Health Organization pulled the country's status, a development health officials say reflects a troubling decline in vaccination rates in a country where Measles was once eliminated thanks to high immunization rates.

“The loss of measles elimination status means that we’ve had continued transmission of measles in Canada for twelve months or longer, and uninterrupted,” said Dr. Davinder Singh. “It's not due to new cases of measles that have been acquired from outside the country and then traveled here, because we know that can happen anywhere for any country, but is due to peop

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