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Hello. As a general question, if a person contracts influenza, how likely is it that he or she will die as a result? An approximate answer is OK. I gather that people are more likely to die of this condition if they are very young or very old. Is that correct? FreeKnowledgeCreator ( talk) 00:50, 20 June 2019 (UTC)
How is anti-venom made, in layman's terms? I know they need to extract or milk snakes to get venom to be used in the creation of anti-venom, but how? Thanks Anton 81.131.40.58 ( talk) 10:47, 20 June 2019 (UTC)
In Australia most of the anti-venenes are made using horses rather than rabbits. Treatment using this serum on a person for more than one episode can trigger an allergic reaction to horse serum on the second or third use. Hence most snake-handlers who get bitten try to not use the anti-venene unless/until it is absolutely neccesary. 49.197.107.84 ( talk) 06:56, 21 June 2019 (UTC)
I saw a new brand of toothpaste at the drugstore, parondontax, whose sole active ingredient is stannous flouride, or tin(II) fluoride. That's no different from, say, Crest Pro-Health, except maybe in price and manufacturer (gsk). What's the diff? 104.162.197.70 ( talk) 11:56, 20 June 2019 (UTC)
I believe stannous fluoride is the least effective toothpaste and sodium fluoride in in the middle and sodium monoflurophosphate is the most effective of the 3 fluoride toothpaste ingredients available in the US not sure about non fluoride toothpaste but I do know in the US at least Crest mostly uses sodium fluoride and Colgate mostly uses sodium monoflurophosphate and stannous fluoride is in the sensitive products as it irritates teeth the least of the fluoride toothpastes 64.222.180.90 ( talk) 18:33, 20 June 2019 (UTC)
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Hello. As a general question, if a person contracts influenza, how likely is it that he or she will die as a result? An approximate answer is OK. I gather that people are more likely to die of this condition if they are very young or very old. Is that correct? FreeKnowledgeCreator ( talk) 00:50, 20 June 2019 (UTC)
How is anti-venom made, in layman's terms? I know they need to extract or milk snakes to get venom to be used in the creation of anti-venom, but how? Thanks Anton 81.131.40.58 ( talk) 10:47, 20 June 2019 (UTC)
In Australia most of the anti-venenes are made using horses rather than rabbits. Treatment using this serum on a person for more than one episode can trigger an allergic reaction to horse serum on the second or third use. Hence most snake-handlers who get bitten try to not use the anti-venene unless/until it is absolutely neccesary. 49.197.107.84 ( talk) 06:56, 21 June 2019 (UTC)
I saw a new brand of toothpaste at the drugstore, parondontax, whose sole active ingredient is stannous flouride, or tin(II) fluoride. That's no different from, say, Crest Pro-Health, except maybe in price and manufacturer (gsk). What's the diff? 104.162.197.70 ( talk) 11:56, 20 June 2019 (UTC)
I believe stannous fluoride is the least effective toothpaste and sodium fluoride in in the middle and sodium monoflurophosphate is the most effective of the 3 fluoride toothpaste ingredients available in the US not sure about non fluoride toothpaste but I do know in the US at least Crest mostly uses sodium fluoride and Colgate mostly uses sodium monoflurophosphate and stannous fluoride is in the sensitive products as it irritates teeth the least of the fluoride toothpastes 64.222.180.90 ( talk) 18:33, 20 June 2019 (UTC)