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After an explosion of measles cases in Europe, medical experts say it’s just a “question of time” before outbreaks happen in Canada, thanks to high rates of global travel and low rates of vaccinations.
There were 42,200 measles cases across more than 40 European countries last year, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced this week — a more than 40-fold increase from 2022, which saw fewer than 1,000 cases. In