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Vaccines prevent between 2.5 and 4 million deaths every year.
In the United States, there is a birth every 8 seconds, according to the U.S. Census Bureau's Population Clock.
The average office desk has 400 times more bacteria on it than a toilet.
Though Candida and Aspergillus species are the most common fungal pathogens causing invasive fungal disease in the immunocompromised, infections due to previously uncommon hyaline and dematiaceous filamentous fungi are occurring more often today. Rare fungal infections, once accurately diagnosed, may require surgical debridement, immunotherapy, and newer antifungals used singly or in combination with older antifungals, on a case-by-case basis.
Today, nearly 8 out of 10 pregnant women living with HIV (about 1.1 million), receive antiretrovirals.

