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When blood is deoxygenated and flowing back to the heart through the veins, it is dark reddish-blue in color. Blood in the arteries that is oxygenated and flowing out to the body is bright red. Whereas arterial blood comes out in spurts, venous blood flows.
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Asthma cases in Americans are about 75% higher today than they were in 1980.
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Autoimmune diseases occur when the immune system destroys its own healthy tissues. When this occurs, white blood cells cannot distinguish between pathogens and normal cells.
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The human body produces and destroys 15 million blood cells every second.
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There are over 65,000 known species of protozoa. About 10,000 species are parasitic.