The CBC test assesses your red blood cells (blood-forming cells), white blood cells (infection-fighting cells), and platelets (clot-forming cells). MPV (which stands for mean platelet volume) is a measure of the average size of platelets, which are cells that help your blood clot.
With a bulbous head and 50 rows of tiny teeth, the 66th megamouth shark ever seen in the world washed ashore on Wednesday morning in Pio Duran, Albay, the Philippines, according to Marine Wildlife Watch of the Philippines (some say this is only the 60th confirmed sighting).
Thousands of dead specimens of the Common Starfish, Asterias rubens, were washed up on the beach about a mile and a half to the north of Tywyn on the Cardigan Bay coast of north Wales. There seem to be various interpretations of these mass strandings, including winter storms and changes in water temperature.