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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) was originally known as the Communicable Disease Center, which was formed to fight malaria. It was originally headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, since the Southern states faced the worst threat from malaria.
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.
There are over 65,000 known species of protozoa. About 10,000 species are parasitic.
Once thought to have neurofibromatosis, Joseph Merrick (also known as "the elephant man") is now, in retrospect, thought by clinical experts to have had Proteus syndrome. This endocrine disease causes continued and abnormal growth of the bones, muscles, skin, and so on and can become completely debilitating with severe deformities occurring anywhere on the body.
Earwax has antimicrobial properties that reduce the viability of bacteria and fungus in the human ear.