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 1835 it was discovered that a disease of silkworms known as muscardine could be transferred from one silkworm to another, and was caused by a fungus.
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Asthma cases in Americans are about 75% higher today than they were in 1980.
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There are more sensory neurons in the tongue than in any other part of the body.
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After 5 years of being diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis, one every three patients will no longer be able to work.
Edward Bellamy, author of the utopian novel Looking Backward (1888) Bellamy’s socialism worried many