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North and South America have become the first regions of the world to eradicate rubella, or German measles, after no home-grown cases in five years.The virus - spread by sneezes or coughs - can lead to serious birth defects if contracted by pregnant women.Up to 20,000 children were born with rubella in the Americas every year until mass vaccinations started.But the last endemic cases registered in the region were in Argentina and Brazil in 2009.
However, about 120,000 new cases of rubella emerge every year, particularly in south-east Asia and Africa.
It doesn't concern you, Sister, that kind of absolutist view of the universe? Right and wrong determined solely by a single all-knowing, all powerful being whose judgment cannot be questioned and in whose name the most horrendous acts can be sanctioned without appeal?
Being required by someone else’s religious beliefs to behave contrary to one’s sexual identity is degrading and disrespectful.
I'll stop eating beef lamb and pork the same day they start letting me eat vegetarians.
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