Sloane Crosley

For the average person, taken to their sick bed, it takes a serious bout of pneumonia or a full body cast to completely forget the life they had prior to falling off the rollercoaster. I, however, will do this over a paper cut on my thumb, obsessing of said cut and being generally consumed by it.

American Writer

Kate DiCamillo

I was a very sickly kid and suffered from chronic pneumonia, which is why we moved to the warm southern climate. I think being ill contributed to my development as a writer. I learned early on to entertain myself by reading.

American Author

Pat Cadigan

I'm old enough to remember when the polio vaccine was still new. Also, it hadn't been that long since most people who caught pneumonia died from it. These medical breakthroughs were practically miracles.

Martin H. Fischer

When a man lacks mental balance in pneumonia he is said to be delirious. When he lacks mental balance without the pneumonia, he is pronounced insane by all smart doctors.

American Physicist

Pamela Sue Martin

A naturopath once told me you should never take antibiotics except if you have pneumonia, a kidney infection or some other serious illness. That's my philosophy, too.

American Actress

Paul Gascoigne

The drink? Yes, I've had tough times in my life, especially the last year, regarding my ex-wife, my kids, I nearly broke my neck, I was on death row with pneumonia.

English Athlete

Mazie Hirono

I lost a sister to pneumonia, when she was 2 years old. She died at home, not in a hospital, where maybe her life could have been saved.

American Politician

Rocky Graziano

I quit school in the sixth grade because of pneumonia. Not because I had it, but because I couldn't spell it.

American Athlete

JaVale McGee

The best thing when you get pneumonia is rest - that's it, just rest.

Roy Nelson

For me, having pneumonia and losing to Mir doesn't sit well.

Pneumonia is a serious condition, indicating urgent medical attention is needed when mentioned.

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Used in health and wellness contexts, often discussing symptoms, treatment, or prevention.

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In informal speech, it's sometimes used metaphorically to express severity of non-medical situations.

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 there are lots of things we have to do in the global health community if we want to make the world better in the future -- things like fight diseases. So many children today die of diarrhea, as you heard earlier, and pneumonia. They kill literally millions of children a year. We also need to help small farmers --

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 This is a drug called Tamiflu. Tamiflu is a drug which governments around the world have spent billions and billions of dollars on stockpiling, and we've stockpiled Tamiflu in panic, in the belief that it will reduce the rate of complications of influenza. Complications is a medical euphemism for pneumonia

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 I was called down to the ward to see him. His is the little hand. I was called down to the ward to see him by a respiratory physician. He said, "Look, there's a guy down here. He's got pneumonia, and he looks like he needs intensive care. His daughter's here and she wants everything possible

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 Determining the cause of pneumonia can be difficult, but once it is established, doctors can prescribe antibiotics, which may include either antibacterial or antiviral treatments. Treatment with antibiotics helps the body get the infection under control. As the pathogen is cleared out,

Why is pneumonia so...

 the ward to see him his is the little hand I was called down the world to see him by a respiratory physician he said look there's a guy down here he's got pneumonia and he looks like he needs intensive care his daughters here and she wants everything possible to be done

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 have equal value and uh the foreign aid that rich countries give have saved tens of millions of lives things like global fund for hiv and gabi uh which helps buys vaccines for things like diarrhea and pneumonia uh and so there is some equity in the

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 It's literally true. Researchers are killing pneumonia in lungs by shining light deep inside of lungs. Our system could enable this noninvasively. Let me give you three more examples of what this technology can do. stroke.

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 vast majority of those deaths diarrhea pneumonia and malaria and so that brings us to the the first problem that all all raised this morning which is how do we stop a disease a deadly disease that's

Mosquitos, malaria and...

 pneumonia and malaria will give this baby boy in Senegal today the same protection from those diseases that I take for granted from my own son but it will also start a virtuous cycle of

Bringing critical care...

 that account for the vast majority of those diarrhea, pneumonia and malaria. So that brings us to the first problem that I'll raise this morning,

Pneumonia

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