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In Today's Edition: October 8, 2025 |
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How Alberta Became the Epicentre of Canada’s Measles Outbreak |
A virus eradicated from Canada a generation ago just took the life of a newborn
by Monica Kidd
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Jaime Blackwood had been doing ICU duty for sixteen years and had never seen measles in person. Maybe one of her colleagues had, but that would have been back in the day—and was this virus even the same as what people had experienced in the ’70s and ’80s? After all, viruses evolve. Could it be more contagious now? Have different effects on the body? Could it be more deadly? In addition to infected kids, she also worried about pregnant colleagues travelling to pick them up. The risk of death from measles is ten times higher for pregnant people, and infections in the last two weeks of pregnancy can mean a baby is born
with the disease. Would their own protective equipment and vaccines hold?
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It has been widely reported that a single request to ChatGPT requires nearly ten times more energy than a Google search, but some experts argue that figure is misleading. According to Sasha
Luccioni, AI and climate lead at Hugging Face, the world’s biggest platform for open-source AI, why is this estimate inaccurate?
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