Mealses Outbreak

2019 is already has more than 110,000 cases of measles, which is three times more than last year at the same time. The measles virus is a very infectious disease, but it was once thought to be eradicated from America. But with lower rates of vaccination in certain areas, the disease is coming back.

Shokuhara in schools

April is the beginning of school year in Japan and there is a new movement to hit twitter: Shokuhara or forced eating. There have been several incidents of kids at Japanese schools being forced to finish their lunch against their will. In some cases the kids ate until they threw up. Others, the kids came down with stress, depression and other serious symptoms.

Old guy has a fatal car accident

An 87 year old driver panics and accidentally hits the gas petal thinking it was the breaks. Unable to stop, he runs into several pedestrians injuring eight and killing a mother and daughter. Only after slamming into a truck did the car come to a stop. Police haven’t found any health problems or reasons why the driver might have acted this way. The general public opinion is, it was a grave and fatal mistake. 

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Chinese Scientist implant Human Brain genes into Monkey

Chinese scientist once again push ethical boundaries with more gene-editing. This time they have implanted human genes into Monkey’s Brains.The experiment is an attempt to further understand brain development and evolution, by giving monkey’s some of our genes. With 6 of 11 monkeys already dead, the experiment has mainly been considered bad science with no clear objective.

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