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The longest a person has survived after a heart transplant is 24 years.
Approximately 25% of all reported medication errors result from some kind of name confusion.
There are more bacteria in your mouth than there are people in the world.
Human kidneys will clean about 1 million gallons of blood in an average lifetime.
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.