"Severe pneumonia" refers to a serious lung infection that can cause significant inflammation and damage to the air sacs in the lungs.
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Last winter, a recently discovered bacterial variant became a major cause
of severe pneumonia among people who caught the flu.
However, in certain cases
of severe pneumonia or bloodstream infections, the barrier is not properly restored, he said.
Mexico acknowledges receipt of information and responds that in March and April the country had an unusual increase in seasonal influenza with predominance of B strain; some cases presented with
severe pneumonia in adults of reproductive age.
Lee had been admitted to Singapore General Hospital on Feb. 5, initially
for severe pneumonia and, despite brief periods of improvement, his condition deteriorated rapidly over the weekend following an infection.
Even matches can be toxic and lighter fluid can cause gastrointestinal irritation, Central Nervous System depression (decreased rate of breathing, decreased heart rate, and loss of consciousness possibly leading to coma or death) and possibly
severe pneumonia if ingested.
«The excitement of this is the possibility of someone coming to see the physician with influenza that looks a little more severe than usual and treating them with the drugs Singulair or Accolate and preventing them from
getting severe pneumonia,» he said.
«If she had
really severe pneumonia or something else really serious, I don't think we'd see her standing up, walking, and talking like normal so soon.»
Eek had been exposed to kennel cough, which turned
into severe pneumonia and required spending several days in an oxygen tent at the emergency hospital.
Symptoms of Valley Fever: Most cases of Valley Fever show minimal to no clinical signs; however, there is a more severe form that affects the lungs and
produces severe pneumonia.
«It doesn't have to be sky - high levels of particulate pollution to increase a person's risk of
developing severe pneumonia,» says Pirozzi.
The report, published in the October issue of The American Journal of Pathology, suggests that the emerging H7N9 virus has the potential to cause a pandemic, since it may transmit efficiently in humans and
cause severe pneumonia.
Studies have shown that providing adequate amounts of vitamin A can reduce overall child mortality from common illnesses (including measles,
severe pneumonia, and persistent diarrhea) by 23 - 34 percent.
My brother Abraham McCowan was recently hospitalized for several days with
severe pneumonia and other complications.
Legionnaires» disease is
a severe pneumonia caused by the Legionella bacteria.
The Pc vaccine protects a child against pneumococcal (Pc) disease, which ranges from mild cold symptoms and ear infections to
severe pneumonia, bloodstream infections, and meningitis.
But mother of one of the deceased students, Olivia Agyemang, says the postmortem conducted on her son at KNUST Hospital shows «
severe pneumonia» as the cause of his death.
The man hospitalised in Manchester, UK, late last month has
severe pneumonia caused by the new coronavirus — so severe, his blood is being oxygenated outside his body.
Three patients from eastern China developed
severe pneumonia and acute respiratory distress syndrome and died as a result.
Last April, before the new coronavirus was discovered, eleven people in Jordan, including eight healthcare workers in an intensive care unit, came down with
severe pneumonia.
Mexico notes that the case of
a severe pneumonia in patient who died in Oaxaca could be related.
The virus is a relative of SARS and causes respiratory infections including
a severe pneumonia known as Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, or MERS.
Rickettsia, the microbe that causes such diseases as typhus and Rocky Mountain spotted fever, resides there alongside many others, from Salmonella to strains of Legionella, a bacterium that causes
a severe pneumonia - like disease in humans and was first identified following an outbreak at an American Legion convention in Philadelphia in 1976.
They estimated daily effects of PM 2.5 within a week before presentation on the odds for getting pneumonia,
severe pneumonia, and pneumonia related deaths.
«When exposed to elevated levels of particulate pollution, older adults are more likely to get pneumonia, be hospitalized with
severe pneumonia and also die from pneumonia in the hospital,» says the study's lead author Cheryl Pirozzi, M.D., a pulmonologist and assistant professor of Internal Medicine at University of Utah Health.
During these episodes, older adults are approximately 2.5 - times more likely to have pneumonia, 2.5 - times more likely to have
severe pneumonia and triple their likelihood for dying in the hospital with pneumonia, says Pirozzi.
It can cause
a severe pneumonia leading to accelerated inflammatory damage to the lungs, and may prevent safe lung transplantation.
The first case was a 60 - year - old man admitted to the Dr Soliman Fakeeh Hospital in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on 13 June with
severe pneumonia and acute renal failure, who died on 24 June.
Scientists first detected the virus in a 60 - year - old man from Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, who developed
severe pneumonia this past spring.
That finding helps explain why people infected with H7N9 often develop
severe pneumonia.
Postmortem exams of six cloned mice revealed that they all had
severe pneumonia.
A female bulldog puppy languishing in the «iso» room at Chelsea Kennel Club with mucus oozing from her face, later found to have «
severe pneumonia.»
Because food is not sterile, an immediate,
severe pneumonia develops.
Our puppy developed
severe pneumonia and bronchitis from a cold that was going around his camp.
Most cats had mild illness though some had moderate illness and one cat with
severe pneumonia was humanely euthanized.
Camp Cocker is unusual among animal rescue groups in that we often rescue dogs with serious medical needs: dogs who have been hit by cars and need immediate orthopedic surgery, dogs who need cataract surgery to save their vision, dogs who need to be hospitalized with
severe pneumonia.
He is quite the special little dog - brought in to be euthanized for what seemed to be a hopeless genetic condition (he has congenital megaesophagus and had
severe pneumonia), the doctor took him in and now he is thriving.
The bacterium can be «carried» by dogs in their upper respiratory tract (most likely their tonsils) without showing any symptoms of disease and it is likely that, as yet unknown, bacterial, host or environmental factors, possibly including an over-exuberant immune response to the bacteria, are responsible for
the severe pneumonia observed in the worst cases.
Some pets may develop
a severe pneumonia if more than one lobe of the lungs is affected.