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Friday, October, 23, 2009

What Are The Causes Of Pneumonia

Pneumonia vaccine may help limit H1N1 flu deaths

August 10, 2009
The more life-threatening consequences of the H1N1 swine flu virus are linked to pneumonia, but that the pneumonia vaccine is being underused, health officials report. Experts say there is little that can be done to stop the spread of swine flu as the school season starts, but the pneumonia vaccine, Pneumovax, may help reduce the number of hospitalizations and deaths associated with it. The vaccine works by stimulating the body's ability to knock out the bacteria responsible for many cases of pn... Read more »

Expert & Community Posts

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Should People With Asthma Get the Pneumonia Vaccine?
By Fred Little , Health Expert

...review the impact that severe infections from a common pneumonia bacterium can have on... Read more »

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Medical Cost Control
By Elizabeth Roberts , Health Expert

...after a trip to Tahiti left me with a rare case of pneumonia. For a week, specialists of all... Read more »

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Mycoplasma bacteria and IBD
By Elizabeth Roberts , Health Expert

...what had caused me to be so ill - I'd had mycoplasma pneumonia. It was a strain of pneumonia... Read more »

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Should patients who have heart disease take vaccinations for flu, pneumonia, and shingles?
By Dr. Larry Weinrauch , Health Expert

...but they are not often seen as causes of death. A pneumonia vaccination fortunately is needed... Read more »

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Dementia Not Consistently Considered as Cause of Death
By Carol Bradley Bursack , Health Expert

...body gets too weak to survive, and often develops pneumonia or another infection.   Years ago,... Read more »

Health Guide

Atypical pneumonia
Walking pneumonia; Chlamydophila pneumoniae Prevention There are no proven methods for preventing atypical pneumonia, and no vaccinations are available at this... Read more »
Pneumonia: Medications
Dozens of antibiotics are available that can treat most cases of pneumonia in or out of the hospital, but it is sometimes difficult for the physician to select the best drug. Patients with... Read more »
Pneumonia: Prognosis
PrognosisMore than a million people are hospitalized each year for pneumonia, making it the third most frequent reason for hospitalizations (births are first and heart disease is second). Although... Read more »
Pneumonia: Diagnosis
Diagnostic Difficulties in Community-Acquired Pneumonia (CAP). It is important to determine if the cause of CAP is bacteria, atypical bacteria, or a virus, since they all require different... Read more »
Pneumonia: Symptoms
General Symptoms. The symptoms of bacterial pneumonia develop abruptly and typically include:A single episode of shaking chills followed by feverChest pain on the side of lung infection --... Read more »

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...also used to prevent and treat a certain type of pneumonia (pneumocystis-type). This medication... Read more »

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...effects occur: signs of a lung infection called pneumonia (e.g., fever, cough, trouble... Read more »

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...effects. Serious infections (e.g., skin infections, pneumonia, bone/joint infections, sinusitis)... Read more »

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...possibly fatal side effects (e.g., heart failure, pneumonia, stroke) when this medication is... Read more »

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...risk of serious, possibly fatal side effects (e.g., pneumonia, heart failure) when this... Read more »

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