Walt Disney helped combat malaria by making an animated film in 1943 called The Winged Scourge. This short film starred the seven dwarfs and taught children that mosquitos transmit malaria, which is a very bad disease. It advocated the killing of mosquitos to stop the disease.
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People about to have surgery must tell their health care providers about all supplements they take.
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The first documented use of surgical anesthesia in the United States was in Connecticut in 1844.
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During the twentieth century, a variant of the metric system was used in Russia and France in which the base unit of mass was the tonne. Instead of kilograms, this system used millitonnes (mt).
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Cytomegalovirus affects nearly the same amount of newborns every year as Down syndrome.
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