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On average, someone in the United States has a stroke about every 40 seconds. This is about 795,000 people per year.
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In 2012, nearly 24 milliion Americans, aged 12 and older, had abused an illicit drug, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA).
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The word drug comes from the Dutch word droog (meaning "dry"). For centuries, most drugs came from dried plants, hence the name.
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In 1835 it was discovered that a disease of silkworms known as muscardine could be transferred from one silkworm to another, and was caused by a fungus.
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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.