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Vitiligo stats: a tidal wave
Nichola Wong from UK has shared with us the recent stats of the number of search requests for 'vitiligo' on Google from August 2012 through July 2014. Year-toYear, we see a steady rise of interest towards vitiligo, with an average of 368,000 monthly searches coming from the US (28%), Brazil (7.6%), UK (5.8%), France (4.8%), Mexico (4.2%), and the rest of the world (49.1%)
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