Most childhood vaccines are 90–99% effective in preventing disease. Side effects are rarely serious.
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Nitroglycerin is used to alleviate various heart-related conditions, and it is also the chief component of dynamite (but mixed in a solid clay base to stabilize it).
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Cytomegalovirus affects nearly the same amount of newborns every year as Down syndrome.
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Many of the drugs used by neuroscientists are derived from toxic plants and venomous animals (such as snakes, spiders, snails, and puffer fish).
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Egg cells are about the size of a grain of sand. They are formed inside of a female's ovaries before she is even born.
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