Move over Texas, Canada Is Now the New North American Measles Hot Spot

Move over Texas, Canada Is Now the New North American Measles Hot Spot

This spring, as Texas was dealing with a significant measles outbreak, Canada was also dealing with the disease.

In fact, Canada is currently experiencing one of the largest measles outbreaks in North America, with confirmed cases nearly three times higher than those reported in the United States, despite Canada’s much smaller population. The epicenter is the Ontario area, and so far, nearly 4000 cases have been reported. Furthermore, the outbreak is continuing.

Ontario had recorded 2,276 measles cases as of last week. While its case count is still the country’s highest, attention has lately turned to Alberta.

Alberta reported 47 new cases over the weekend, bringing its total cases since March to 1,454 as of Monday.

The province’s former chief medical officer of health Dr. Mark Joffe said July 9 that Alberta had twice the rate of confirmed cases than the more populous Ontario.

The province of Alberta updates its measles count on weekdays and breaks down the number of cases in each zone, with its south zone accounting for more than half of the cases.

Now, without “anti-vaxxer” Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. to blame for these numbers, how is the super-progressive BBC responding? By blaming the local Mennonite population and “vaccine hesitancy“.

In Ontario, health authorities say the outbreak began in late 2024, when an individual contracted measles at a large Mennonite gathering in New Brunswick and then returned home.

Mennonites are a Christian group with roots in 16th-Century Germany and Holland, who have since settled in other parts of the world, including Canada, Mexico, and the US.

Some live modern lifestyles, while conservative groups lead simpler lives, limiting the use of technology and relying on modern medicine only when necessary.

In Ontario, the illness primarily spread among Low German-speaking Mennonite communities in the province’s southwest, where vaccination rates have historically been lower due to some members’ religious or cultural beliefs against immunisation.

Almost all those infected were unvaccinated, according to data from Public Health Ontario.

An interesting fact about the Mennonites is that they have been living in the Ontario area since the late 1700’s.

The first Mennonites came to Canada in 1786 from Pennsylvania. Annual ministers meetings beginning in 1810 led to the formation of the Mennonite Conference of Ontario eventually called the Mennonite Conference of Ontario and Quebec. Congregations of this conference maintained close ties with Mennonite congregations in the United States through church-wide gatherings convened every 2nd year from 1898 to 2001 by the Mennonite Church (MC), commonly known as the “Old” Mennonite Church.

The Mennonites have been practicing their faith, including their traditional approaches to medicine for over 200 years. In fact, even among the Mennonites, measles was officially declared eradicated in Canada in 1998.

Clearly, the Mennonites are not necessarily the source of this particular outbreak. However, it turns out Ontario is Canada’s top immigrant-receiving province, with most newcomers hailing from developing nations in Asia and Africa. The current immigration numbers show that over 86,000 Indians and nearly 7,000 Pakistanis immigrated to the this area in 2024. These two countries are #2 and #3 in the number of measles cases reported globally as of July 2025.

Canada is experiencing a massive measles outbreak and health authorities are blaming the country’s tiny population of German Mennonites so they don’t have to look at the millions of immigrants flooding in from India, which is a global measles hotspot.

terminally retarded country https://t.co/xwqRSJfm2w pic.twitter.com/b7K2cRpiLw

— pagliacci the hated 🌝 (@Slatzism) July 21, 2025

the part you’re missing is that they began to report incidents after *travel* outside their communities and even provinces.

unless you’ve travelled in Canada recently, you wouldn’t know that you’re lucky if you get a flight, bus, or train that isn’t 50% packed with subconts. and…

— pagliacci the hated 🌝 (@Slatzism) July 21, 2025

If public health officials are too progressive to acknowledge the origin of outbreaks, then measles and other infectious diseases that were once considered “eradicated” will return. Journalists ignoring data that doesn’t support preferred narratives does not alter the facts of epidemiology and disease transmissibility.

And, as for “vaccine hesitancy,” both public health officials and the press can take the blame for the public’s lack of trust, given the antics that occurred during the covid pandemic.

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