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Approximately 500,000 babies are born each year in the United States to teenage mothers.
About one in five American adults and teenagers have had a genital herpes infection—and most of them don't know it. People with genital herpes have at least twice the risk of becoming infected with HIV if exposed to it than those people who do not have genital herpes.
Nearly 31 million adults in America have a total cholesterol level that is more than 240 mg per dL.
The first oral chemotherapy drug for colon cancer was approved by FDA in 2001.
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.