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<\/p>\nMost provinces have declared the outbreak over at various times over the last year but recent cases have been reported in Manitoba, according to the Public Health Agency of Canada website.<\/p>\n
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Children should receive two doses of the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine \u2014 the first dose at 12 to 15 months of age and the second at 18 months, or around the time they start school, depending on the province. <\/p>\n
Reimer said parents should check their child\u2019s vaccine record and reach out to a primary-care provider or their local public health unit if they can\u2019t find it.<\/p>\n
\u201cI know there\u2019s a lot to think about when it\u2019s back-to-school. But this is a great time that we want you to just trigger your memory to double-check this before your kids end up in that space where viruses can spread so easily,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n
It can be hard for parents to wade through misinformation stoking fear about vaccines online and find science-based health advice, she said. <\/p>\n
\u201cSometimes when people aren\u2019t even looking for it, they\u2019re still being bombarded by misinformation through algorithms,\u201d Reimer said. <\/p>\n
\u201cOf course parents have questions. We want parents to have questions when they\u2019re thinking about any intervention with their children, but I just want to make sure that they also have access to reliable answers,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Parents can find evidence-based information on childhood vaccination through public health and medical association websites and the Canadian Paediatric Society, Reimer said. <\/p>\n
But it\u2019s even more important to make sure people have access to fact-based information at the community level through the people they trust, she said. <\/p>\n
\u201cMost people will never meet me in person. And so whether or not they trust me in my role \u2026 (in) government, I need to make sure that what I\u2019m saying reflects what their family doctor is saying (and) reflects what they\u2019re finding online so that they\u2019re hearing accurate information hopefully as often as they\u2019re seeing that misinformation,\u201d Reimer said. <\/p>\n
\u201cPeople really, at the end of the day, they trust the people in their lives,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
A family doctor or nurse practitioner is an important source of information who patients and parents trust, highlighting the need to make sure every Canadian has a primary-care provider, Reimer said. <\/p>\n
Public health workers also need to connect with community leaders and religious leaders to ensure they have accurate information about vaccination they can share, she added. <\/p>\n
Reimer said she also thinks the majority of people who are behind on getting their kids immunized are not anti-vaccine. <\/p>\n
\u201cI think most of the time it comes (down) to competing priorities. Life is difficult when it\u2019s hard to pay the bills, when it\u2019s hard to make ends meet. Focusing on preventive care \u2014 that can be hard to get that to the top of the to-do list.\u201d<\/p>\n
Reimer said she worries about other vaccine-preventable diseases taking hold, such as mumps and rubella, which the MMR shot also protects against. <\/p>\n
Australia is currently in the midst of diphtheria outbreaks, she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s no reason that this couldn\u2019t happen here as well,\u201d Reimer said, noting that vaccination rates for the serious bacterial infection are below 80 per cent for two-year-olds in Canada. <\/p>\n
Children should receive multiple doses of the tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough) and polio vaccine, starting at two months of age, according to the Canadian Immunization Guide.<\/p>\n
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Sept. 1, 2026.<\/p>\n
Canadian Press health coverage receives support through a partnership with the Canadian Medical Association. CP is solely responsible for this content.<\/p>\n
Nicole Ireland, The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Most provinces have declared the outbreak over at various times over the last year but recent cases have…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":879900,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[49,48,84],"class_list":["post-879899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=879899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879899\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/879900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=879899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=879899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=879899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}