( Eric Risberg / AP )Now health experts are warning that Canada, too, could face measles outbreaks because of the highly contagious nature of the disease and our own low vaccination rates. The fact is Canadians have become dangerously complacent about getting their children vaccinated. But in Canada rates differ tremendously across the country. In Manitoba, for example, vaccination rates for two-year-olds are at an alarmingly low 66 per cent. The federal government should establish a national vaccination registry that would alert health officials to pockets of the country with dangerously low vaccination rates.

Source: thestar February 11, 2019 21:56 UTC