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...y. The National Center for Health Statistics, a division of the Center for Disease Control, (http://www.cdc.gov/nchs) collects and publishes data of a health related nature. The web site mostly contains data that have been already statistically summarized along with a variety of factoids. The "FASTATS A to Z" link off the main page leads to an alphabetical list of topics that are interesting to peruse. For instance, a look at the comprehensive data under Allergies reveals the fact that in 1997, there were 18.092 million cases of hay fever in the US among people 18 years of age or ol...