Why Do Mosquitos Go For Your Ears?
- Earth & Environment
- April 18, 2013
Pneumonia, caused by Staphylococcus bacteria, is an infection of the lungs that kills 49,000 people a year in the United States1. Cholera, an intestinal infection caused by the Vibrio bacteria, kills 95,000 people a year worldwide. “Flesh-eating disease” (necrotizing fasciitis), caused by the same group of Streptococcus bacteria that cause strep throat, kills one person out
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