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My daughter, 32, has pneumonia and is being treated. can she infect us, worried she could give it to her 4 year old son who has croup.

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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.

Answered 12/31/2016

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