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When a "defeated" disease comes roaring back, it exposes every crack in our public health foundation

There's something almost quaint about measles making headlines in 2025. Like hearing that someone still uses a rotary phone, or that a city's traffic lights run on punch cards. Measles was supposed to be done, finished, relegated to the history books alongside polio and smallpox. Canada declared it eliminated in 1998. We moved on.

Except diseases don't read our press releases.

Toronto Board of Health: June 3, 2025 Meeting

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