A play-by-play of how measles outbreaks can spiral out of control [Video]

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Measles infections are ticking up and up across multiple provinces, with more cases already this year than all of 2024.

Local public health alerts of new cases come with detailed descriptions of the person’s whereabouts before they were diagnosed.

We’re told which hours and minutes a passenger spent in airports in Vancouver, Toronto, and Fredericton, how long other patients were in an emergency department north of Toronto or family health clinic in eastern Ontario, and just how long someone visited a sit-down chain restaurant in Quebec’s Laurentians.

The announcements raise a couple questions: Why do measles cases seem to be slipping through health-care professionals’ fingers — or even going unrecognized by patients or their families?

And, why give …