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As many as 28% of hospitalized patients requiring mechanical ventilators to help them breathe (for more than 48 hours) will develop ventilator-associated pneumonia. Current therapy involves intravenous antibiotics, but new antibiotics that can be inhaled (and more directly treat the infection) are being developed.
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Cytomegalovirus affects nearly the same amount of newborns every year as Down syndrome.
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The average human gut is home to perhaps 500 to 1,000 different species of bacteria.
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Approximately 25% of all reported medication errors result from some kind of name confusion.
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Between 1999 and 2012, American adults with high total cholesterol decreased from 18.3% to 12.9%