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"Starting" is somewhat of an understatement; since October of 2024 Manitoba has had over 1,200 measles cases. In that same time frame the United States has had 951.
With less than 1% of the US population Manitoba has nearly 30% more cases between 10/1/24 and 5/1/25.
I honestly had no idea there was even a problem in Manitoba until I read your comment. Now I'm wondering why the US is headline news for this.
As of today, MB has reported 20 confirmed measles cases
As of April 19, all of Canada has 1177 measles cases (158 of which are probable and not confirmed)
Where are you getting your info from?
The OP's article.
"One in Ontario, Canada, has resulted in 1,243 cases from mid-October through April 29. "
It's literally the 2nd sentence of the 3rd paragraph.
Additionally Canada's Health Minister has updated the total to 1,384 as of today, May7th.
If your own Health Minister being quoted in a Canadian News Source isn't good enough then I guess this conversation is over.
This is strange. I'm trying to find the full stats, however this says as of Nov 9 2024, Canada had a total of 130 cases. Granted this was only 6 provinces, but the 6 most populated.
The spike lately is certainly way more than I was aware of, though everything I could find about MB specifically has 20 total in 2025 so far.
Let me know when you figure it out. I'm happy to revisit.
You may be correct on MB though. I pulled that number from a news article that I can't get into again because I exceeded my daily threshold of free ones. I'll just concede that I'm incorrect on the case count in MB specifically, at least until I can get into the dang article again.
Oh dude, no worries. I was wrong about the totals too. There's way more cases in Canada than I was aware of. It's weirdly difficult to find the specifics. Actually really surprised there's fewer than 1000 in the US overall as well.