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  2. Hemoptysis - Wikipedia

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    Blood-laced mucus from the sinus or nose area can sometimes be misidentified as symptomatic of hemoptysis (such secretions can be a sign of nasal or sinus cancer, but also a sinus infection). Extensive non-respiratory injury can also cause one to cough up blood. Cardiac causes like congestive heart failure and mitral stenosis should be ruled ...

  3. Pneumonic plague - Wikipedia

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    The most apparent symptom of pneumonic plague is coughing, often with hemoptysis (coughing up blood). With pneumonic plague, the first signs of illness are fever, headache, weakness and rapidly developing pneumonia with shortness of breath, chest pain, cough and sometimes bloody or watery sputum.

  4. Plague (disease) - Wikipedia

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    The initial signs are indistinguishable from several other respiratory illnesses; they include headache, weakness, and spitting or vomiting of blood. The course of the disease is rapid; unless diagnosed and treated soon enough, typically within a few hours, death may follow in one to six days; in untreated cases, mortality is nearly 100%. [16] [17]

  5. Bacterial pneumonia - Wikipedia

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    Streptococcus pneumoniae is the most common bacterial cause of pneumonia in all age groups except newborn infants. Streptococcus pneumoniae is a Gram-positive bacterium that often lives in the throat of people who do not have pneumonia. Other important Gram-positive causes of pneumonia are Staphylococcus aureus and Bacillus anthracis.

  6. What does the color of your mucus mean?

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    "If you're a smoker and you’re coughing up blood, it is worrisome. Your doctor may take a more in-depth health history and order a chest X-ray before making a diagnosis." If your mucus is brown ...

  7. The Surprising Relationship Between Oral Health and IBD - AOL

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    Oral symptoms can crop up before, at the same time, or after intestinal symptoms arise. But people with Crohn’s disease may be more likely to notice oral lesions before any other symptoms appear.

  8. Pulmonary contusion - Wikipedia

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    Wheezing and coughing are other signs. [12] Coughing up blood or bloody sputum is present in up to half of cases. [12] Cardiac output (the volume of blood pumped by the heart) may be reduced, [11] and hypotension (low blood pressure) is frequently present. [6]

  9. The One Type of Cough You Should Never, Ever Ignore - AOL

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    "While it may seem like certain features, such as coughing up blood or a particular-sounding cough, may be more serious than a run-of-the-mill dry cough, it is always important to get evaluated by ...