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When Gabriel Fahrenheit invented the first mercury thermometer, he called "zero degrees" the lowest temperature he was able to attain with a mixture of ice and salt. For the upper point of his scale, he used 96°, which he measured as normal human body temperature (we know it to be 98.6° today because of more accurate thermometers).
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus or MRSA was discovered in 1961 in the United Kingdom. It if often referred to as a superbug. MRSA infections cause more deaths in the United States every year than AIDS.
A seasonal flu vaccine is the best way to reduce the chances you will get seasonal influenza and spread it to others.
The first oral chemotherapy drug for colon cancer was approved by FDA in 2001.
The longest a person has survived after a heart transplant is 24 years.


