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The average office desk has 400 times more bacteria on it than a toilet.
The immune system needs 9.5 hours of sleep in total darkness to recharge completely.
Bacteria have been found alive in a lake buried one half mile under ice in Antarctica.
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.
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.