#GetFact'd: 23,000 North Koreans have defected to South Korea
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According to a 2002 article in the journal Forensic Science International, a 65-year-old Japanese man was found unconscious at an old age home.
CPR was attempted on scene by home staff, emergency medical personnel, and also in the emergency department of the hospital using appropriate medications and defibrillation.
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He was declared dead after attempted resuscitation. However, a policeman found the person moving in the mortuary after 20 minutes.
The patient survived for four more days. This is known as Lazarus Syndrome and there are many other accounts.
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In the last 60 years, more than 23,000 North Koreans have defected to South Korea. Only two Koreans have gone in the opposite direction.
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Between 1917 and 1940, the cure for patients with syphilis was to give them malaria.
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