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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.
In the United States, there is a birth every 8 seconds, according to the U.S. Census Bureau's Population Clock.
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.
There are over 65,000 known species of protozoa. About 10,000 species are parasitic.
Earwax has antimicrobial properties that reduce the viability of bacteria and fungus in the human ear.