Most childhood vaccines are 90–99% effective in preventing disease. Side effects are rarely serious.
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Amphetamine poisoning can cause intravascular coagulation, circulatory collapse, rhabdomyolysis, ischemic colitis, acute psychosis, hyperthermia, respiratory distress syndrome, and pericarditis.
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Human kidneys will clean about 1 million gallons of blood in an average lifetime.
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Medication errors are three times higher among children and infants than with adults.
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Ether was used widely for surgeries but became less popular because of its flammability and its tendency to cause vomiting. In England, it was quickly replaced by chloroform, but this agent caused many deaths and lost popularity.