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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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About 3% of all pregnant women will give birth to twins, which is an increase in rate of nearly 60% since the early 1980s.
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The average adult has about 21 square feet of skin.
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Bacteria have been found alive in a lake buried one half mile under ice in Antarctica.
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Vaccines prevent between 2.5 and 4 million deaths every year.