Asthma cases in Americans are about 75% higher today than they were in 1980.
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Since 1988, the CDC has reported a 99% reduction in bacterial meningitis caused by Haemophilus influenzae, due to the introduction of the vaccine against it.
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There are approximately 3 million unintended pregnancies in the United States each year.
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When Gabriel Fahrenheit invented the first mercury thermometer, he called "zero degrees" the lowest temperature he was able to attain with a mixture of ice and salt. For the upper point of his scale, he used 96°, which he measured as normal human body temperature (we know it to be 98.6° today because of more accurate thermometers).
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Between 1999 and 2012, American adults with high total cholesterol decreased from 18.3% to 12.9%