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Certain chemicals, after ingestion, can be converted by the body into cyanide. Most of these chemicals have been removed from the market, but some old nail polish remover, solvents, and plastics manufacturing solutions can contain these substances.
More than 30% of American adults, and about 12% of children utilize health care approaches that were developed outside of conventional medicine.
As many as 20% of Americans have been infected by the fungus known as Histoplasmosis. While most people are asymptomatic or only have slight symptoms, infection can progress to a rapid and potentially fatal superinfection.
Cancer has been around as long as humankind, but only in the second half of the twentieth century did the number of cancer cases explode.
Most childhood vaccines are 90–99% effective in preventing disease. Side effects are rarely serious.