Global News Winnipeg: Manitoba measles cases climb as vaccination rates fall

April 25, 2025 —

University of Manitoba Professor of Community Health Sciences Dr. Michelle Driedger says a number of factors are at play.

“We do know that [with] COVID-19 and the pandemic… there were a lot of disruptions to people accessing vaccines,” she said.

“I think conflated within that is a lot of the COVID-19 vaccines and… a lot of the discourse around that also started to shift peoples’ attitudes to vaccines more generally.”

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