Measles outbreak: Almost 30 per cent of N.B. kindergartners not fully vaccinated

Almost 30 per cent of students starting kindergarten successful New Brunswick nationalist schools past twelvemonth did not conscionable vaccination rules.

The astir caller figures from New Brunswick’s Health Department are notable fixed the ongoing outbreak of measles successful the province.

The study says 71.8 per cent of students who began kindergarten successful autumn 2023 were fixed the required 9 vaccinations against diseases specified arsenic measles and polio.

Proof of immunization has been required for each children entering kindergarten successful the state since 1982.

As of Nov. 20, determination were 44 cases of measles successful the state — each successful the Fredericton country and parts of the Upper Saint John River Valley — with much than 80 per cent of infections successful radical nether the property of 19.

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All confirmed infections are connected to a travel-related measles lawsuit brought into the state successful precocious October.

The New Brunswick outbreak is portion of a inclination of rising measles cases crossed Canada, wherever determination was a full of 130 cases successful 2024 arsenic of Nov. 9.

This study by The Canadian Press was archetypal published Nov. 27,  2024.