{"id":8252,"date":"2025-11-10T23:02:21","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T23:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/10\/measles-canada-americas-paho-who-elimination-status\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T23:02:21","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T23:02:21","slug":"measles-canada-americas-paho-who-elimination-status","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/10\/measles-canada-americas-paho-who-elimination-status\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada loses measles elimination status \u2014\u00a0as does the entire Americas region"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Canada loses measles elimination status \u2014\u00a0as does the entire Americas region<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Canada has formally lost its measles elimination status, the country\u2019s public health agency <a href=\"https:\/\/www.canada.ca\/en\/public-health\/news\/2025\/11\/statement-from-the-public-health-agency-of-canada-on-canadas-measles-elimination-status.html\">announced Monday<\/a>, meaning all of the Americas have lost that status as well.<\/p>\n<p>The decision, which was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/11\/03\/measles-elimination-status-canada-united-states-mexico\/\">widely expected<\/a>, comes after a meeting last week where an expert committee of the Pan American Health Organization determined that a large measles outbreak that began in Canada in October 2024 was still ongoing, more than 12 months after it started.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/11\/10\/measles-canada-americas-paho-who-elimination-status\/?utm_campaign=rss\">Read the rest\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Helen Branswell<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/11\/10\/measles-canada-americas-paho-who-elimination-status\/?utm_campaign=rss\">Go to statnews<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canada loses measles elimination status \u2014\u00a0as does the entire Americas region Canada has formally lost its measles elimination status, the country\u2019s public health agency announced Monday, meaning all of the Americas have lost that status as well. The decision, which was widely expected, comes after a meeting last week where an expert committee of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2216,1428,2179,2180],"tags":[2150],"class_list":["post-8252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-health","category-infectious-disease","category-public-health","tag-statnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8252"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}