Gorillas can catch human colds and other illnesses.
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Dogs can be trained to identify the scent of lung cancer long before symptoms develop.
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There is a disease called ichthyosis that turns the skin scaly like a fish.
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Although African-Americans make up only 13% of the U.S. population, they accounted for one half of the estimated new HIV/AIDS diagnoses in 2004.
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A man named Heraclitus had an illness that made his body swell up with water. To try to sweat it off, he buried himself in a steaming pile of animal poo, but then overheated and died of dehydration.
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