Walt Disney helped combat malaria by making an animated film in 1943 called The Winged Scourge. This short film starred the seven dwarfs and taught children that mosquitos transmit malaria, which is a very bad disease. It advocated the killing of mosquitos to stop the disease.
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In the United States, there is a birth every 8 seconds, according to the U.S. Census Bureau's Population Clock.
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In most cases, kidneys can recover from almost complete loss of function, such as in acute kidney (renal) failure.
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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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There are over 65,000 known species of protozoa. About 10,000 species are parasitic.
Hematoma. A hematoma around the right eye caused by an injury. A hematoma is the result of bleeding
