A member asked:

Is pneumonia still fatal nowadays?

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Not all are fatal: Most pnumonias are not fatal these days, people sometime die from pneumonia if they have assciated immunity problems, other lung diseases, old age&small children.Most pneumonias if diagnosed and treated with appropriate antibiotics does not end in fatality having said that it stil lcauses 4 million deaths all over the world, with 450 million suffer from this condition annually, 7%of world population.

Answered 2/19/2015

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