Iowa mumps outbreak makes the Onion

Classic--scroll down to the May 3rd edition.

Hat tip to Wallace--thanks!

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We went on an excursion last weekend to see the Dead Sea Scrolls at the Pacific Science Center.
A very cool idea: portray the Evolutionary Timeline on a web page, drawing it so that one pixel equals 30,000 years.
A few weeks ago, I wrote about visiting the Dead Sea Scrolls exhibit at the Pacific Science Center and learning how DNA analysis is being used to help put pieces of the scrolls together.
Last week, we asked readers if they could tell which of these two photos, offering only 12 × 14 pixels of information apiece, represented a face:

For a moment, I was thinking, "what do sex toys have to do with mumps? Have I been giving my local docs the wrong information on prevention?" Then I scrolled down. Boy, was I relieved.