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In the United States, an estimated 50 million unnecessary antibiotics are prescribed for viral respiratory infections.
Once thought to have neurofibromatosis, Joseph Merrick (also known as "the elephant man") is now, in retrospect, thought by clinical experts to have had Proteus syndrome. This endocrine disease causes continued and abnormal growth of the bones, muscles, skin, and so on and can become completely debilitating with severe deformities occurring anywhere on the body.
Everyone has one nostril that is larger than the other.
Most fungi that pathogenically affect humans live in soil. If a person is not healthy, has an open wound, or is immunocompromised, a fungal infection can be very aggressive.
The first documented use of surgical anesthesia in the United States was in Connecticut in 1844.