On average, someone in the United States has a stroke about every 40 seconds. This is about 795,000 people per year.
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There are more nerve cells in one human brain than there are stars in the Milky Way.
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Green tea is able to stop the scent of garlic or onion from causing bad breath.
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It is believed that humans initially contracted crabs from gorillas about 3 million years ago from either sleeping in gorilla nests or eating the apes.
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Though Candida and Aspergillus species are the most common fungal pathogens causing invasive fungal disease in the immunocompromised, infections due to previously uncommon hyaline and dematiaceous filamentous fungi are occurring more often today. Rare fungal infections, once accurately diagnosed, may require surgical debridement, immunotherapy, and newer antifungals used singly or in combination with older antifungals, on a case-by-case basis.
