... Alberta is also performing badly by global standards. Yemen has the world’s highest rate of measles cases thanks to war and famine. Measles is particularly deadly among malnourished children. As a consequence, it’s probably not fair to compare Alberta to that country, said Talbot. But India is another matter. It ranks second in the world in terms of total measles cases, about 10,000 this year. Still, given India’s population of 1.46 billion, that gives the country a rate of six cases per million. “So Alberta’s rate is worse than the second-worst country in the world, and India has huge challenges,” concluded Talbot.
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Talbot placed Alberta’s shocking measles numbers in perspective. They are the worst in Canada and North America. Even by global standards they are appallingly poor. “We’re at around 200 cases per million population,” he said.
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In sheer number of cases, Alberta virtually matches the entire United States, where vaccine skepticism is now official government policy. The U.S. has recorded 1,274 cases of measles this year. The majority of those cases, 750 of them, popped up in a rural Texas outbreak where two children died. So Texas, with its population of 31 million, has far fewer total and per capita cases than Alberta, population five million, noted Talbot.
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