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Did you know?
About 60% of newborn infants in the United States are jaundiced; that is, they look yellow. Kernicterus is a form of brain damage caused by excessive jaundice. When babies begin to be affected by excessive jaundice and begin to have brain damage, they become excessively lethargic.
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Eating food that has been cooked with poppy seeds may cause you to fail a drug screening test, because the seeds contain enough opiate alkaloids to register as a positive.
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More than 150,000 Americans killed by cardiovascular disease are younger than the age of 65 years.
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There are over 65,000 known species of protozoa. About 10,000 species are parasitic.
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Most childhood vaccines are 90–99% effective in preventing disease. Side effects are rarely serious.