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About 80% of major fungal systemic infections are due to Candida albicans. Another form, Candida peritonitis, occurs most often in postoperative patients. A rare disease, Candida meningitis, may follow leukemia, kidney transplant, other immunosuppressed factors, or when suffering from Candida septicemia.
People with alcoholism are at a much greater risk of malnutrition than are other people and usually exhibit low levels of most vitamins (especially folic acid). This is because alcohol often takes the place of 50% of their daily intake of calories, with little nutritional value contained in it.
Blood is approximately twice as thick as water because of the cells and other components found in it.
Multiple experimental evidences have confirmed that at the molecular level, cancer is caused by lesions in cellular DNA.
After a vasectomy, it takes about 12 ejaculations to clear out sperm that were already beyond the blocked area.