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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.
Bacteria have flourished on the earth for over three billion years. They were the first life forms on the planet.
Only one in 10 cancer deaths is caused by the primary tumor. The vast majority of cancer mortality is caused by cells breaking away from the main tumor and metastasizing to other parts of the body, such as the brain, bones, or liver.
The first oncogene was discovered in 1970 and was termed SRC (pronounced "SARK").
It is difficult to obtain enough calcium without consuming milk or other dairy foods.