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I’m fully vaccinated against measles, but I still became Ottawa’s fifth confirmed case this year

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Measles is scary. Breakthrough measles is even scarier.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/article-measles-breakthrough-vaccine-joy-spearchief-morris/

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Nearly 5,000 measles cases have been reported in Canada so far in 2025; in 2023, only 11 were recorded.
This is insane. We'll have to have an entire generation start getting sick and dying off from preventable diseases before the general public realizes the good vaccines do.
Vaccinated and caught measles?
What I didn’t know then was that a prescription medication I was taking for eczema had possibly caused my immune system to become vulnerable to measles
Okay, so maybe not so worrying to the vaccinated.
- Being vaccinated doesn't mean that you 100% sure won't get infected
  It means that the chance you do get infected is extremely much smaller and if you do, typically your body can.fight better and you get less sick.
  Combined with a coverage of 98% of the population it typically causes that that viral infection disappears completely
  
  All vaccines do is expose your immune system to something to be on the look out for. Thus vaccines are only good as your immune response is. Thats why its so important to have herd immunity, so people with weak immune systems will be less likely to be exposed to diseases.
I had spent a few weeks in Alberta with my family in July
Oof, Alberta, not even once
- It's easy to dunk on Alberta but there are a lot of measles cases in Ontario.
  As of September 23, Ontario has reported a total of 2,375 measles cases (2,058 confirmed, 317 probable)
  https://www.publichealthontario.ca/-/media/Documents/M/24/measles-ontario-epi-summary.pdf
  So taken in context with the article here saying there have been nearly 5000 cases across Canada, that puts Ontario at almost half of the national cases.
  
  Ontario: 16.1 million people Alberta: 4.9 million people
  I think I'll take dunking on AB
Just more and more people opting out as exemptions to school vaxxing or what?
Idk in the us or by state, but most all northern states have near 0 measles. Washington had some in the islands in the sound not long back, vax skeptical.
That is the only measles I have heard of up north I think.
Ye old never one never zero rearing its ugly head.

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