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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.
Cutaneous mucormycosis is a rare fungal infection that has been fatal in at least 29% of cases, and in as many as 83% of cases, depending on the patient's health prior to infection. It has occurred often after natural disasters such as tornados, and early treatment is essential.
In most cases, kidneys can recover from almost complete loss of function, such as in acute kidney (renal) failure.
There are 60,000 miles of blood vessels in every adult human.
If all the neurons in the human body were lined up, they would stretch more than 600 miles.