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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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The first war in which wide-scale use of anesthetics occurred was the Civil War, and 80% of all wounds were in the extremities.
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In most cases, kidneys can recover from almost complete loss of function, such as in acute kidney (renal) failure.
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The average human gut is home to perhaps 500 to 1,000 different species of bacteria.
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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.