The spread of the measles continues to slow as the BC Centre for Disease Control is reporting 5 new cases across Northeast BC.
That brings the region’s total number of cases to 318 since the beginning of 2025. The total cases in BC has increase to 418.
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.