Burns -Key facts
•An estimated 180 000 deaths every year are caused by burns – the vast majority occur in low- and middle-income countries.
•Non-fatal burn injuries are a leading cause of morbidity.
•Burns occur mainly in the home and workplace.
•Burns are preventable
The human nose can remember 50,000 different scents, and experts say that the memories evoked by our sense of smell are some of the oldest and most potent we have. Think of how you feel when you smell a flower that used to grow in your grandmother's garden.
Babies are born with about 300 bones, but by the time they reach adulthood, these bones will have fused together to form 206 bones. https://t.co/QKo2NJ0kth
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Next time you run out of bandages, know that you could—but probably wouldn't want to—reach for the cobwebs in your basement as an alternative. Cobwebs actually have natural antiseptic and anti-fungal properties, and were used in ancient Greece and Rome by physicians.
Humans share 98.8% of their DNA with chimpanzees. But thankfully, despite this, the differences lie in how these genes are used. Because gene expression can be turned up or down,the same gene can be turned to "high" in a human and "low" in a chimp.