what's up sunshine it's Friday friday
hope you're having an awesome one quick
psychology term that I'm going to share
with you before we get you your news and
head into this weekend serial position
effect it's a psychological phenomenon
describing how people have this tendency
to remember the first and last items in
a series uh they remember those things
best that's why I'm often saying "Let's
start this week off strong let's finish
this week strong we only have 86,400
seconds in a day so let's tackle this
last day of the week with some
enthusiasm and finish this week strong."
We begin today with health news there's
an outbreak of measles in multiple
states in the United States the outbreak
began in a rural county in Texas and has
now spread to several hundred cases
there new Mexico Oklahoma and Kansas
have also confirmed cases of measles
measles is one of the world's most
contagious diseases that is also easily
preventable with a vaccine the viral
infection can be serious for small
children symptoms like coughing runny
nose sore throat fever and skin rash are
slow to appear usually 10 to 14 days
after exposure the measles vaccine was
developed in the 1960s and is so
effective that measles was declared
fully eradicated in the US in 2000 under
normal circumstances the US Centers for
Disease Control or CDC recommends one
dose of the vaccine between 12 to 15
months of age and another between 4 and
6 years old it's important to note that
measles has not been eradicated in many
countries around the world and outbreaks
can happen because of imported cases and
low vaccination rates local officials in
states linked to the measles outbreak
are now concerned the measles virus
could spread into hightra areas and
vulnerable populations because of the
contagious nature of the virus and low
vaccination rates in some areas of the
country experts expect the outbreak
could continue to grow us Health and
Human Services Secretary Robert F
kennedy Jr is publicly urging people to
get the measles vaccine let's hear from
our Dr sanjay Gupta who explains what
measles is and why it's so contagious
measles is one of the most contagious
diseases on the planet now like the flu
or CO 19 it can be spread through
coughing sneezing even breathing but the
thing about the measles virus is that it
can also linger longer picture this if
someone had measles and left the room 2
hours later if someone who was
unvaccinated walked in they would have a
90% chance of getting measles 2 hours
later it's also estimated that a person
with measles could infect nine out of 10
of their close contacts if their
contacts are unvaccinated another reason
it's so contagious is that it can spread
before symptoms even develop that means
you can spread it to others days before
you start to get sick days before those
characteristic red spots appear but the
key here is vaccination and because
measles is so contagious you need a
really high level of vaccination we're
talking 95% in the community to help
keep it at bay that's why we see
outbreaks occur in pockets of the
country where that number has dropped
now to news out of the Middle East where
Israel has ordered six UN schools in
East Jerusalem to close within 30 days
the closures will mean roughly 800
students there may not be able to finish
the school year the schools were run by
the UN Relief and Works Agency for
Palestine refugees which operates
schools for Palestinians in Israeli
occupied areas israel has accused a
handful of employees of that agency in
Gaza of participating in the attack on
Israelis on October 7th of 2023 a claim
the UN denies israel's Ministry of
Education is now telling parents to
register the students in other schools
but with the war in Gaza continuing the
education system for Palestinians in the
region is in ruins at least 70% of the
school buildings there in Gaza have
taken direct hits from Israeli air
strikes and nearly a quarter of
university campuses have been destroyed
the UN says none of the nearly 800,000
students there have had any formal
schooling for more than a year many of
those schools were located within large
areas of land that Israel seized to
incorporate into what the military has
announced as security zones our Jeremy
Diamond shows us how the military
transformed part of Gazin territory
within about a half a mile of the
Israeli border into
rubble inside Gaza swaths of land
closest to the Israeli border have been
turned into a
wasteland nearly every building within
about a half a mile of the border fence
has been destroyed
and we filmed this footage a year ago
while demolitions were still ongoing
over time the Israeli military has
raised about 22 square miles of
Palestinian land creating a buffer zone
on about 16% of Gaza's territory it is a
no-go zone for Palestinians some of whom
have been killed after setting foot
inside the unmarked perimeter over the
course of the war this one-time economic
hub was flattened this video which CNN
geo located shows the destruction of
Gaza's only Coca-Cola factory but it's
not just factories in the town of Huzah
hundreds of homes were leveled with a
clear zone of destruction spanning about
1 kilometer from the border residential
buildings green houses sheds factories
you name it it needs to be flat that's
the order a sergeant major who served in
Khuzah said except for the UNRA school
in that small water facility the
directive was nothing left
he is one of a dozen Israeli soldiers
who describe the demolitions and
enforcement of the buffer zone to
breaking the silence an Israeli watchdog
group that verifies and publishes
soldiers
testimonials the Israeli military did
not respond to CNN's request for comment
more than 6,200 Palestinian buildings
have been damaged or destroyed within 1
kilometer of the Gaza border according
to satellite analysis including here in
Al Burge where homes and acres of
farmland were
destroyed popcot what animal was the
first to use an external cardiac
pacemaker mouse rabbit dog or cat meow
if you said dog your dog on right in
1952 doctors at the University of
Toronto successfully paced the heart of
a dog using an external electronic
pacemaker a medical device which is
implanted in millions of people today
helping to stabilize their
heartbeat today's story getting a 10 out
of 10 goes to a pacemaker so small it
can fit on the tip of a needle
scientists at Northwestern University
say they have developed the world's
smallest pacemaker smaller than a grain
of rice it can be injected into a
patient's body without surgery normally
the medical device fits in the palm of a
hand typically about the size of a
matchbox our Jacqueline Howard shows us
how the device works and the tiniest
patients it could one day help it's
about the same size as a sesame seed
they're calling this the world's
smallest pacemaker engineers at
Northwestern University developed the
device to be so minuscule that it fits
inside the tip of a syringe and it can
be injected right into a patient's chest
so no invasive surgeries needed the
pacemaker itself is light sensitive it
works alongside this small patch stuck
to the skin when an irregular heartbeat
is detected it flashes that light
activates electrodes on the pacemaker
and then sends electrical impulses to
the heart helping to control and correct
the pace of the heartbeats while this
tiny pacemaker can work with a heart of
any size it might especially benefit
newborn babies with congenital heart
defects as they recover from serious
heart surgeries posttop recovery can be
uh daunting especially for infants who
undergo that kind of surgery the
pacemaker isn't meant to be worn for
life it will dissolve away over a period
6 to9 months completely for now this
tiny piece of technology is still an
experiment but one day it could make a
big difference for our youngest tiniest
heart patients all right everybody now
it's time for the best part of the week
is shoutout time and we're showing some
love to Utterback School in Conrad
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