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In the United States, congenital cytomegalovirus causes one child to become disabled almost every hour. CMV is the leading preventable viral cause of development disability in newborns. These disabilities include hearing or vision loss, and cerebral palsy.
When blood is exposed to air, it clots. Heparin allows the blood to come in direct contact with air without clotting.
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.
The first war in which wide-scale use of anesthetics occurred was the Civil War, and 80% of all wounds were in the extremities.
Malaria was not eliminated in the United States until 1951. The term eliminated means that no new cases arise in a country for 3 years.