Vampire bats have a natural anticoagulant in their saliva that permits continuous bleeding after they painlessly open a wound with their incisors. This capillary blood does not cause any significant blood loss to their victims.
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Complications of influenza include: bacterial pneumonia, ear and sinus infections, dehydration, and worsening of chronic conditions such as asthma, congestive heart failure, or diabetes.
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The familiar sounds of your heart are made by the heart's valves as they open and close.
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Cyanide works by making the human body unable to use oxygen.
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Today, nearly 8 out of 10 pregnant women living with HIV (about 1.1 million), receive antiretrovirals.
Energy budget for a temperate deciduous forest (data from Gosz et al. 1978).
The nervous system is described as having two interconnected divisions: the central nervous system (
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