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Approximately 500,000 babies are born each year in the United States to teenage mothers.
A strange skin disease referred to as Morgellons has occurred in the southern United States and in California. Symptoms include slowly healing sores, joint pain, persistent fatigue, and a sensation of things crawling through the skin. Another symptom is strange-looking, threadlike extrusions coming out of the skin.
Illicit drug use costs the United States approximately $181 billion every year.
More than 150,000 Americans killed by cardiovascular disease are younger than the age of 65 years.
The term bacteria was devised in the 19th century by German biologist Ferdinand Cohn. He based it on the Greek word "bakterion" meaning a small rod or staff. Cohn is considered to be the father of modern bacteriology.