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Previously healthy 35 yr old female. had pneumonia for first time ever in march. will i be prone to get it again now that i have had it?

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Possibly: previously healthy patients that pick up pneumonia in the community are at a slightly higher risk to get recurrent pneumonia than those patients who have not had community-acquired pneumonia before

Answered 1/7/2017

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