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| | Facts | - Many cancer patients that are treated with chemotherapy lose their hair. For some when the hair grows back, it can grow back a different colour, or be curly or straight.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - The first owner of the Marlboro Company, Wayne McLaren, died of lung cancer.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - People that use mobile phones are 2.5 time more likely to develop cancer in areas of the brain that are adjacent to the ear they use to talk on the mobile phone.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - Over 436,000 U.S. Troops were exposed to depleted uranium during the first Gulf war.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - The incidents of immune system diseases has increased over 200% in the last five years.
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(Added: Mon May 31 2004) - Soldiers disease is a term for morphine addiction. The Civil War produced over 400,000 morphine addicts.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - The oldest known disease in the world is leprosy.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - On average, 90% of the people that have the disease Lupus are female.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - Diabetes is the fourth leading cause of death in the U.S., accounting for about 180,000 deaths per year.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - A person that is struck by lightning has a greater chance of developing motor neurone disease.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - The number one cause of rabies in the United States are bats.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - Prosopagnosia refers to the inability to identify people by their faces. In severe cases people with prosopagnosia may not be able to identify themselves in a mirror.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - Every year in the U.S., there are 178,000 new cases of lung cancer.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - Chances of a women getting breast cancer are increased by excesseive use of alcohol.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - Over 90% of diseases are caused or complicated by stress.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - The flu pandemic of 1918 killed over 20 million people.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - Due to eating habits in the USA, one in three children born in the year 2000 have a chance of getting type II diabetes.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - Rocky Mountain spotted fever is a disease caused by ticks.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - Deliberately infecting people with malaria has been used to cure different viral infections. The high fever will strengthen the immune system and fight the virus. In recent times this has been considered as a treatment to HIV.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - A popular superstition is that if you put a piece of bread in a baby's crib, it will keep away diseases.
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