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Vancouver records multiple measles cases

Peak Web September 21, 2018

Written by: Srijani Datta, Assistant News Editor   Health officials from Vancouver are urging individuals across the city and its surrounding areas to update their measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccination doses, after reported cases of measles have gone up in Vancouver. Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH) released a public health bulletin after an individual who attended Skookum Festival at Stanley Park on September 8 had been identified to be suffering from measles.  The individual is also identified to have used public transit, attended a community block party, and visited various other locations, between September 8 and 11, where he may…

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S.T. EYE is a great concept, but why a glowing condom?

EIC July 6, 2015

I almost fell off my seat after reading this: a few 14-year-olds from Isaac Newton Academy in Britain had invented a condom that glows different colours depending on what type of disease or infection you have. I thought, “Well, at…

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