B.C.'s Interior Health Authority confirms additional measles cases

The Canadian Press

· Posted: Jun 26, 2025 9:02 PM EDT | Last Updated: 7 hours ago

British Columbia's Interior Health Authority says it has confirmed further cases of measles successful the portion spanning the province's confederate Interior.

A connection from Interior Health says communities successful the portion with confirmed cases present see Kamloops, Kelowna, Salmon Arm and the Nelson area.

The update comes aft the wellness authorization issued a connection connected Tuesday saying it had confirmed a azygous measles lawsuit successful Kamloops.

The cases this week travel an announcement connected June 17 that a visitant to B.C. who had measles had travelled passim the Interior portion infectious.

At the time, determination had been nary different measles cases successful the Interior region.

The Northern and Fraser wellness authorities besides issued statements this week saying measles cases had been confirmed successful Chilliwack, wherever the corruption appeared to person dispersed locally, and successful Wonowon, northwest of Fort St. John.

Northern Health has said the archetypal lawsuit successful the portion appeared to person been acquired done travel, but its aesculapian officers judge the corruption has since begun circulating successful the community.

Premier David Eby said Wednesday that the dispersed of measles crossed Canada is "the sadly predictable outcome" of the "recklessness" of anti-vaccination politicians.

He told a Vancouver quality league that nationalist wellness authorities are present focused connected ensuring radical who are not protected person afloat vaccination.

"I volition promote each British Columbians to guarantee that they are vaccinated. Measles is nary joke. It kills kids. It's a preventable disease, and we don't privation that to beryllium the communicative of the summertime for our province," Eby said.

The B.C. Centre for Disease Control said Thursday that 63 cases of measles had been reported successful the province this year, with 13 cases presently active.