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About 60% of newborn infants in the United States are jaundiced; that is, they look yellow. Kernicterus is a form of brain damage caused by excessive jaundice. When babies begin to be affected by excessive jaundice and begin to have brain damage, they become excessively lethargic.
As many as 20% of Americans have been infected by the fungus known as Histoplasmosis. While most people are asymptomatic or only have slight symptoms, infection can progress to a rapid and potentially fatal superinfection.
Most childhood vaccines are 90–99% effective in preventing disease. Side effects are rarely serious.
Human kidneys will clean about 1 million gallons of blood in an average lifetime.
There are approximately 3 million unintended pregnancies in the United States each year.