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Most childhood vaccines are 90–99% effective in preventing disease. Side effects are rarely serious.
Colchicine is a highly poisonous alkaloid originally extracted from a type of saffron plant that is used mainly to treat gout.
More than 30% of American adults, and about 12% of children utilize health care approaches that were developed outside of conventional medicine.
In the United States, an estimated 50 million unnecessary antibiotics are prescribed for viral respiratory infections.
In the ancient and medieval periods, dysentery killed about ? of all babies before they reach 12 months of age. The disease was transferred through contaminated drinking water, because there was no way to adequately dispose of sewage, which contaminated the water.