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Docs, could a healthy adult recover from pneumonia without treatment?
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Not advised: Although it is not impossible to beat a bacterial pneumonia without treatment, this disease killed many before the advent of antibiotics. Antibiotics are the standard of care for this disease.
Answered 7/13/2014
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