Neuropathy or nerve damage can be due to a number of specific diseases and disorders. In many cases, neuropathy has no known cause. In rare cases, if the numb face is accompanied by numbness or weakness of the arms or legs on one side of the body, it can be a sign of stroke. Numbness of the face can also result from injury or, rarely, tumors of the brain or nerves.
One in three people in the U.S. knows someone who has been shot. 1; On average, 31 Americans are murdered with guns every day and 151 are treated for a gun assault in an emergency room. 2; Every day on average, 55 people kill themselves with a firearm, and 46 people are shot or killed in an accident with a gun. 3
How many people die from heart attacks everyday? According to PBS's Mysterious Human Heart (2007), approximately 3000 people per day die of myocardial infarction aka heart attack in the USA.