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Earwax has antimicrobial properties that reduce the viability of bacteria and fungus in the human ear.
Drying your hands with a paper towel will reduce the bacterial count on your hands by 45–60%.
As the western states of America were settled, pioneers often had to drink rancid water from ponds and other sources. This often resulted in chronic diarrhea, causing many cases of dehydration and death that could have been avoided if clean water had been available.
Chronic necrotizing aspergillosis has a slowly progressive process that, unlike invasive aspergillosis, does not spread to other organ systems or the blood vessels. It most often affects middle-aged and elderly individuals, spreading to surrounding tissue in the lungs. The disease often does not respond to conventionally successful treatments, and requires individualized therapies in order to keep it from becoming life-threatening.
In the United States, there is a birth every 8 seconds, according to the U.S. Census Bureau's Population Clock.