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There are 20 feet of blood vessels in each square inch of human skin.
The B-complex vitamins and vitamin C are not stored in the body and must be replaced each day.
On average, someone in the United States has a stroke about every 40 seconds. This is about 795,000 people per year.
Since 1988, the CDC has reported a 99% reduction in bacterial meningitis caused by Haemophilus influenzae, due to the introduction of the vaccine against it.
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.