Health Advisory: Measles Outbreak, Vancouver, British Columbia – 9 April, 2010
Action requested:
Clinicians should review the following information about measles and be alert to the potential for measles cases among patients with a compatible clinical syndrome, particularly those who have visited Vancouver, BC.
Assess measles immunization status for all patients. Assure that patients traveling internationally, including to [...]

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The past few days health information online has made the major news media rounds. Here is an example of one of the stories published in the New York Times
The rise of the Internet, along with thousands of health-oriented Web sites, medical blogs and even doctor-based television and radio programs, means that today’s patients have more [...]