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2. It's Cold & Flu Season: Here's How to Tell if Your Senior ...

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   Seniors are generally at higher risk for complications and death from pneumonia due to weakened immune systems. ... causing pneumonia. Fungal pneumonia is more common in people with weakened ...

3. Community-acquired pneumonia - Wikipedia

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   CAP is common, affecting people of all ages, and its symptoms occur as a result of oxygen-absorbing areas of the lung filling with fluid. This inhibits lung function, causing dyspnea, fever, chest pains and cough. CAP, the most common type of pneumonia, is a leading cause of illness and death worldwide [citation needed].

4. Pneumonia can be a deadly complication of COVID, the ... - AOL

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   Just one in four (25%) people at high risk of pneumococcal disease, an infection that causes pneumonia—children younger than 2, adults older than 64, and those with certain chronic health ...

5. Pneumonia - Wikipedia

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   Pneumonia is the most common hospital-acquired infection that causes death. [28] Before the advent of antibiotics, mortality was typically 30% in those that were hospitalized. [21] However, for those whose lung condition deteriorates within 72 hours, the problem is usually due to sepsis. [40]

6. The Unexpected Sign of Pneumonia Most People Miss ... - AOL

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   Roughly 1 million adults in the U.S. seek hospital care due to pneumonia and 50,000 people die from it each year. "Pneumonia can become dangerous if it goes unrecognized and untreated.

7. Pneumococcal pneumonia - Wikipedia

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   Pneumococcal pneumonia is a type of bacterial pneumonia that is caused by Streptococcus pneumoniae (pneumococcus). [1] It is the most common bacterial pneumonia found in adults, the most common type of community-acquired pneumonia, and one of the common types of pneumococcal infection. The estimated number of Americans with pneumococcal ...

8. Some hospitals seeing increase in RSV, 'walking pneumonia ...

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   How to prevent RSV and walking pneumonia. To prevent RSV, there are three vaccines approved for adults ages 60 and older as well as some adults between the ages 50 and 59 who are at higher risk ...

9. Foreign body aspiration - Wikipedia

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   In adults, the right lower lobe of the lung is the most common site of recurrent pneumonia in foreign body aspiration. [2] This is due to the fact that the anatomy of the right main bronchus is wider and steeper than that of the left main bronchus, allowing objects to enter more easily than the left side. [ 2 ]