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Nearly 50 students at Harvard-Westlake School have been diagnosed with whooping cough. But unlike other recent outbreaks, all of the students had been vaccinated. The outbreak is an example what experts have been noticing since doctors switched to a new form of the pertussis vaccine in 1997.

In the middle of a measles outbreak in 1977, the Los Angeles school system required students to be inoculated or stay out of class. Other school systems followed the practice. Will it work again?

On March 31, 1977, as a measles epidemic swept through Los Angeles, the county health department issued an ultimatum to the parents of the county's 1.6 million schoolchildren: Get your kids vaccinated within a month or keep them home.

Highlights from the Washington Post, CNN, the New York Times and others.

By demonstrating that rigorous enforcement of school vaccine mandates would work in the 1970s, L.A. County had a powerful influence on the country.

The arrival of flight AC828 at Lyon-Saint-Exupery airport this morning marks the successful launch of non-stop service between Montreal and Lyon, the only year-round non-stop service between North Ame | eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News

Air Canada today announced the introduction of daily year-round flights from Montreal to Shanghai, China, beginning February 16, 2017. This marks Air Canada’s first direct service to China from Montreal as well as the introduction of a state-of-the-art Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner aircraft on flights departing from Montreal. Tickets will be available for purchase on aircanada.com and through travel agents on September 28. All Air Canada flights provide for Aeroplan accumulation and redemption and,...

Jackson Arts Council celebrates local artists while beginning transition to next director View Comments Jackson Arts Council’s main objective is to promote the work of local artists, and they did that this past week with its second annual The Arts Backstage event. The event is held on the stage at The Ned, and local artists were lined up throughout the stage area and to the side where backstage would be during a production with their work on display. “We spread it out some this year because...

Premium Content Subscriber only A Coast man is "one step closer to going to jail" after he was sentenced for being a drunken pest at a popular Noosa Heads pizza bar. Peter James Cherry, 46, pleaded guilty in Noosa Magistrates Court on Tuesday to committing a public nuisance within a licenced premise and obstructing police. The court heard Cherry while on a drunken night out entered Somedays Pizza on Sunshine Beach Rd at Noosa Heads as staff were closing the restaurant. Police were called af...