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Author: Allison Jones
Publication Date: March 28, 2025 - 14:13
Ontario’s rate of new measles cases stable, says province’s top doctor
March 28, 2025
Ontario’s measles outbreak is likely to continue into the summer, the province’s chief medical officer of health said Friday, but a stable rate of new cases is a hopeful sign that it will not worsen.Measles is so contagious that one infected person can spread it to 16 others, but the province is not seeing that growth rate at the moment, Dr. Kieran Moore said in an interview. This week there were just over 100 new cases and 120 new ones the week before that, he said.
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Two Canadian researchers were among the winners named at this year’s Breakthrough Prize ceremony on Saturday. The annual event, held in Los Angeles, celebrates the world’s largest science awards with a dose of Hollywood glam.Daniel Drucker, a physician and senior investigator at Toronto’s Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, was one of five researchers jointly awarded a US$3-million Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences for discoveries leading to the development of a class of drugs that are now widely used in the treatment of Type 2 diabetes and obesity.
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