• gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works
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    17 days ago

    It didn’t. There have been outbreaks in various states since the summer

    Edit: I was incorrect:

    A country is considered to have endemic measles if there has been uninterrupted transmission from a single outbreak of the virus that has lasted 12 months or longer

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    • Dr. Bob@lemmy.ca
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      17 days ago

      We did. We have religious communities who are very anti-vax in Saskatchewan and Alberta. They are insular but travel between communities for weddings and funerals and disease spreads. 5000 cases in the last couple years.

      • ThePantser@sh.itjust.works
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        17 days ago

        Would be cool if our two governments could function correctly and either quarantine those communities or do force vaccines. Fuck this nut jobs, take the jab and shut the fuck up.