Depends: Many are a secondary infection that arises after a cold and involve invasion by common respiratory germs we all carry in our nose/airway.Pneumococcal pneumonia, which is common, is not that contageous.Mycoplasma or viral pneumonia could be with close contact.Her 4 yo may have given her the croup germ that started the process.
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