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As many as 28% of hospitalized patients requiring mechanical ventilators to help them breathe (for more than 48 hours) will develop ventilator-associated pneumonia. Current therapy involves intravenous antibiotics, but new antibiotics that can be inhaled (and more directly treat the infection) are being developed.
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Russia has the highest death rate from cardiovascular disease followed by the Ukraine, Romania, Hungary, and Poland.
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Pubic lice (crabs) are usually spread through sexual contact. You cannot catch them by using a public toilet.
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Cyanide works by making the human body unable to use oxygen.
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Approximately 500,000 babies are born each year in the United States to teenage mothers.