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About one in five American adults and teenagers have had a genital herpes infection—and most of them don't know it. People with genital herpes have at least twice the risk of becoming infected with HIV if exposed to it than those people who do not have genital herpes.
Malaria mortality rates are falling. Increased malaria prevention and control measures have greatly improved these rates. Since 2000, malaria mortality rates have fallen globally by 60% among all age groups, and by 65% among children under age 5.
Nearly 31 million adults in America have a total cholesterol level that is more than 240 mg per dL.
Excessive alcohol use costs the country approximately $235 billion every year.
The first oral chemotherapy drug for colon cancer was approved by FDA in 2001.