Malaria mortality rates are falling. Increased malaria prevention and control measures have greatly improved these rates. Since 2000, malaria mortality rates have fallen globally by 60% among all age groups, and by 65% among children under age 5.
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Less than one of every three adults with high LDL cholesterol has the condition under control. Only 48.1% with the condition are being treated for it.
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Opium has influenced much of the world's most popular literature. The following authors were all opium users, of varying degrees: Lewis Carroll, Charles, Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Oscar Wilde.
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In the United States, an estimated 50 million unnecessary antibiotics are prescribed for viral respiratory infections.
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After a vasectomy, it takes about 12 ejaculations to clear out sperm that were already beyond the blocked area.
A boy walks past a member of the unofficial “community police” in Cruz Grande, Guerrero, Mexico.