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Asthma cases in Americans are about 75% higher today than they were in 1980.
Vaccines cause herd immunity. If the majority of people in a community have been vaccinated against a disease, an unvaccinated person is less likely to get the disease since others are less likely to become sick from it and spread the disease.
The human body's pharmacokinetics are quite varied. Our hair holds onto drugs longer than our urine, blood, or saliva. For example, alcohol can be detected in the hair for up to 90 days after it was consumed. The same is true for marijuana, cocaine, ecstasy, heroin, methamphetamine, and nicotine.
On average, someone in the United States has a stroke about every 40 seconds. This is about 795,000 people per year.
There are more nerve cells in one human brain than there are stars in the Milky Way.