121. Pneumonia Information This is the page for pneumonia information. pneumonia is a leading complicationof flu and is one of the major causes of hospitalization and death among http://www.dhss.delaware.gov/dhss/dph/dpc/immunize-pneumonia.html

main about dhss services/programs career ... search Division of Public Health (DPH) Services Health Info Healthy Living Disease Info ... Contact info: Division of Public Health 417 Federal Street Dover, DE 19901 Phone: (302) 744-4700 or FAX: E-Mail: dhssinfo@ state.de.us Eating Right Food Safety Getting Fit ... Tobacco Use Immunization-Pneumonia Information IMMUNIZE EVERY SIZE The Fall and Winter flu season is an excellent opportunity to get the shot that helps prevent pneumococcal disease including pneumonia pneumonia ; and 7 million ear infections (usually in children). Pneumococcal disease causes 40,000 deaths annually in the US. Most deaths are in the very young and the elderly. You should get the Pneumococcal Vaccination if: you are 65 years or older, or anyone over 2 years of age who has serious long-term health problems such as heart disease, sickle cell disease, alcoholism, lung disease (not asthma), diabetes or liver cirrhosis, or Other sources for information about the pneumonia vaccination: Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Vaccine Information Statement http://www.cdc.gov/nip/publications/VIS/vis-ppv.pdf

122. Breakthrough In Fight Against Super-Pneumonia A diagnostic test for the virus, with information and related stories and links. New Scientist http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993536

123. Pneumonia pneumonia is not a single disease. It can have over 30 different causes. pneumonia is caused by an infection or injury to the lower respiratory tract http://medplant.nmsu.edu/Diseases/pneumonia/pneumonia.htm

Pneumonia Causes of Pneumonia Medicinal Plant Lists Types of Pneumonia Chemical Constituents ... References By Claudia Galvan, Delia Argabright, and Mantissa Johnston Medicinal Plants of the Southwest Summer 2003 Pneumonia is not a single disease. It can have over 30 different causes. There are five main causes of pneumonia: Bacteria Viruses Mycoplasmas Other infectious agents, such as fungi –including pneumoscystis Various Chemicals http://www.umm.edu University of Maryland Medical Center Causes of Pneumonia Pneumonia is caused by an infection or injury to the lower respiratory tract resulting in inflammation. Infectious agents or injury caused by aspiration of dust or chemical agents causes fluid to enter the alveolar spaces. The symptoms of pneumonia include chills, fever, cough, chest pain, labored breathing, fatigue, anorexia, headache, leucocytosis, and bloody sputum. Pneumonia can also result from the aspiration of gastric contents, water, or other irritants. Infectious pneumonia is common in the US with about 2-3 million cases being diagnosed each year resulting in 40,000 to 70,000 deaths. Mortality is estimated at 14% for patients requiring hospitalization. Risk factors include upper respiratory infection, alcoholism, cigarette smoking, institutionalization, malnutrition, immunocompromise, and illnesses such as cancer, liver or kidney disease, congestive heart disease and cerebro vascular disorder. Pulmonary defense mechanisms such as the cough reflex, mucocilliary action, and immune responses, normally prevent infections but pneumonia results when the pathogen gets past these mechanisms. Virulence and severity of the pneumonia depends on the health of the individual, the particular microorganism, and the size of the inoculation.

124. The Merck Manual Staphylococcal Pneumonia Features symptoms, prognosis, and treatment. http://www.merck.com/mrkshared/mmanual/section6/chapter73/73c.jsp

125. Pneumonia pneumonia, or inflammation of the lungs, is the most common type of infectiousdisease of the lung. Infectious pneumonias are usually identified by naming http://quitsmoking.about.com/cs/nicotinepatch/g/pneumonia.htm

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126. CNN.com - CDC IDs Places Of Suspect SARS Cases - Mar. 20, 2003 CNN http://cnn.com/2003/HEALTH/03/20/mystery.pneumonia/index.html

The Web CNN.com Home Page World U.S. Weather ... Special Reports SERVICES Video E-mail Newsletters CNNtoGO SEARCH Web CNN.com CDC IDs places of suspect SARS cases Story Tools SPECIAL REPORT Mystery illness on the move RELATED Virus spreads across the globe Sick patient gives clues Questions and answers Centers for Disease Control ... World Health Organization SYMPTOMS The World Health Organization alerts travelers to be aware of the symptoms, which include: People after February 1 with a history of fever greater than 100.4 F (38 C) and one or more respiratory symptoms, including cough, shortness of breath, difficulty breathing and one or more of the following: Close contact with a person who has been diagnosed with Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, or SARS. Close contact means having cared for, having lived with, or having had direct contact with respiratory secretions and body fluids of a person with SARS. Recent history of travel to areas reporting cases of SARS. ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Thursday listed the states where it has found 11 suspected U.S. cases of an atypical pneumonia dubbed severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS. Two of the cases are in Hawaii, while one case each are in Arizona, California, Colorado, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina , Tennessee, Virginia and Wisconsin, the CDC said in a statement posted on its Web site.

127. Statins Protect From Death From Pneumonia Patients hospitalised because of pneumonia are at less risk of dying from thedisease if they have been taking the widely used cholesterollowering drugs http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-07/bc-spf072005.php

Public release date: 24-Jul-2005 E-mail Article Contact: Juliette Savin juliette.savin@biomedcentral.com BioMed Central Statins protect from death from pneumonia Patients hospitalised because of pneumonia are at less risk of dying from the disease if they have been taking the widely used cholesterol-lowering drugs 'statins' before hospital admission. These results, published today in the Open Access journal Respiratory Research, suggest another beneficial use of statins, which are prescribed to an increasing number of patients to prevent and treat high cholesterol, diabetes, heart disease and vascular disease. Pneumonia is the seventh most common cause of death and the leading cause of death from infection in the USA, where it kills up to 40,000 people every year – those most at risk are very young children, elderly people and patients with underlying health problems such as AIDS or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (CPOD). The disease is caused by viruses or bacteria, which are becoming resistant to the antibiotics used to treat bacterial pneumonia. Eric Mortensen and colleagues, from the University of Texas Health Centre at San Antonio measured the risk of dying from pneumonia in patients admitted with pneumonia who were taking statins prior to their entry into hospital. They compared it with the risk of dying from the disease in pneumonia patients who were not taking statins. The authors used the Pneumonia Severity Index to rate the risk of dying within 30 days of admission to hospital in the two groups of patients. The results of their statistical analysis show that patients who were on a statin when they entered hospital were 2.8 times less likely to die than patients who were not on statins.

128. Childhood Pneumonia Vaccine May Also Protect Adults CNN http://cnn.com/2003/HEALTH/conditions/05/01/flu.vaccine.reut/index.html

129. Virtual Hospital: Community-Acquired Pneumonia: Interactive Guidelines: Empiric The antibiotic recommendations are from CommunityAcquired pneumonia in AdultsGuidelines for Management by the Infectious Disease Society of America in http://www.vh.org/adult/provider/internalmedicine/CAP/CapTool/ToolStartPage.html

Community-Acquired Pneumonia: Interactive Guidelines: Empiric Therapy Assessment Tool Assessing the Need for Hospitalization - Step I Michael W. Peterson, M.D., Associate Professor of Medicine Gregory Wcisel, M.D. , Pulmonary Fellow Peer Review Status: Pending Creation Date: October 1999 Last Revision Date: November 2000 The following assessment tool is based on "A Prediction Rule to Identify Low-Risk Patients With Community Acquired Pneumonia" by Fine, et al published in January of 1997 in the New England Journal of Medicine This tool is meant to be applied to immunocompetent adults (It is not appropriate for patients with HIV/AIDS, neutropenia, or immunologic malignancies) The antibiotic recommendations are from "Community-Acquired Pneumonia in Adults: Guidelines for Management" by the Infectious Disease Society of America in Clinical Infectious Diseases in April of 1998. 1. What is your patient's age? (required) 15-20 years 21-25 years 26-30 years 31-35 years 36-40 years 41-45 years 46-50 years 51-55 years 56-60 years 61-65 years 66-70 years greater than 70 years 2. What is your patient's gender?

130. EMedicine Health - Bacterial Pneumonia Overview Consumer health resource center providing an overview and its causes, symptoms and treatment. http://www.emedicinehealth.com/Articles/17666-1.asp

Search September 9, 2005 Registration Healthcare Professionals You are in: Pneumonia Bacterial Pneumonia Bacterial Pneumonia Overview Pneumonia is an infection of the lungs. People with pneumonia usually complain about coughing, fever, shortness of breath, and chest pain. Your body's immune system usually keeps bacteria from infecting your lungs. In pneumonia, bacteria reproduce in your lungs, while your body tries to fight off the infection. This response to bacterial invaders is called inflammation. When the inflammation occurs in the alveoli (microscopic air sacs in the lungs), they fill with fluid. Your lungs become less elastic and cannot take oxygen into the blood, or remove carbon dioxide from the blood, as efficiently as usual. When the alveoli don't work efficiently, your lungs have to work harder to satisfy your body's need for oxygen. This causes the feeling of being short of breath, which is one of the most common symptoms of pneumonia. Inflammation causes many of the other symptoms, including fever and chest pain. Pneumonia can be very serious, because it directly interferes with your body's ability to exchange carbon dioxide and oxygen.

131. British Lung Foundation - Pneumonia pneumonia is an infection which causes the normal aircontaining spaces within Many different germs can cause the infection that results in pneumonia. http://www.lunguk.org/pneumonia.asp?dis=23

132. Taiwan Demands Separate Representation In WHO Pneumonia Outbreak Because China blocks international agencies from recognizing Taiwan, the World Health Organization has never been able to help the island cope with epidemics. China Post http://www.chinapost.com.tw/taiwan/detail.asp?ID=35992&GRP=B

133. Pneumonia Detailed information on pneumonia, including different types, diagnosis, and treatment. http://www.healthsystem.virginia.edu/uvahealth/peds_respire/pneumnia.cfm

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134. EMedicine - Pneumonia, Mycoplasma : Article By Santos Cantu, Jr, MD Scientific lecture on the relation of mycoplasma pneumoniae as a common cause for communityacquired pneumonia. http://emedicine.com/emerg/topic467.htm

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135. Pneumonia pneumonia is an inflammation of the lungs caused by bacteria, viruses, Lobar pneumonia affects one or more sections (lobes) of the lungs. http://www.healthsystem.virginia.edu/uvahealth/adult_respire/pneumoni.cfm

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136. CNN.com - More SARS Cases Investigated In U.S. - Mar. 21, 2003 CNN http://cnn.com/2003/HEALTH/03/21/mystery.pneumonia/index.html

The Web CNN.com Home Page World U.S. Weather ... Special Reports SERVICES Video E-mail Newsletters CNNtoGO SEARCH Web CNN.com More SARS cases investigated in U.S. Story Tools SPECIAL REPORT Mystery illness on the move RELATED Health investigators probe deadly links N.M. hospital sends workers home as precaution Questions and answers Centers for Disease Control ... World Health Organization HEALTH LIBRARY Health Library Men's Health Women's Health Care for the whole family SYMPTOMS The World Health Organization alerts travelers to be aware of the symptoms, which include: People after February 1 with a history of fever greater than 100.4 F (38 C) and one or more respiratory symptoms, including cough, shortness of breath, difficulty breathing and one or more of the following: Close contact with a person who has been diagnosed with Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, or SARS. Close contact means having cared for, having lived with, or having had direct contact with respiratory secretions and body fluids of a person with SARS. Recent history of travel to areas reporting cases of SARS.

137. Flu Pneumonia Shots - American Diabetes Association Yet only onethird of them ever get a simple, safe pneumonia shot. A pneumoniashot is recommended for anyone aged 2 or older who, because of chronic health http://www.diabetes.org/type-1-diabetes/flu-pneumonia-shots.jsp

138. CNN - Hustler's Flynt Hospitalized With Pneumonia - January 15, 1999 CNN http://www.cnn.com/US/9901/15/flynt.sick/index.html

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139. Technorati Tag: Pneumonia It was recognized as a major cause of pneumonia in the 1880s pneumonia (theancient Greek word for lungs) is defined as an infection involving the http://www.technorati.com/tags/pneumonia

@import "http://static.technorati.com/css/technorati.css"; @import "http://static.technorati.com/css/tn-sub.css"; Currently tracking 16.8 million sites and 1.5 billion links. Sign Up! Already a member? Sign In. Sign In Username Don't have a username? Password Forgot your password? Cancel Search Tags ... Options Only fill out those fields you care about - leave the rest blank Show posts that: contain all these words: contain this exact phrase: contain at least one of these words: do not contain any of these words: Enter the URL of a website to see blogs that link to it and what they say. Show posts that link to: Enter a category like Sports or Books to see posts, photos, and links on that subject. Separate tags with "OR" to search multiple subjects. Show posts that have been tagged: 9 posts tagged: pneumonia Loading Posts tagged pneumonia in the last 187 days Another Legionnaires' Disease Outbreak I previously wrote about Legionnaires' Disease at Columbia University Medical Center. From the New York Times:Westchester County health officials said... Posted 54 days ago in KidneyNotes 19 links By KidneyNotes Klebsiella pneumoniae Klebsiella pneumoniae is a gram-negative rod-shaped bacteria, and clinically the most important member of the Klebsiella genus of Enterobacteriaceae...

140. EMedicine Health - Viral Pneumonia Overview Consumer health resource center providing information on the causes, symptoms, and treatment of this disorder. http://www.emedicinehealth.com/articles/15339-1.asp

Search September 9, 2005 Registration Healthcare Professionals You are in: Pneumonia Viral Pneumonia Viral Pneumonia Overview Pneumonia is an infection or inflammation of the lungs. It can be in just one part of the lungs, or it can involve many parts. Pneumonia is caused by bacteria, viruses, fungi, and other microorganisms. The severity of pneumonia depends on which organism is causing the infection. Viral pneumonias are usually not very serious, but they can be life-threatening in very old and very young patients, and in people whose immune systems are weak. Even severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), which is believed to have a viral cause, has caused very few deaths (approximately 3-4% of all cases) as of March 19, 2003. For the latest information on this illness, visit the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Web site. Last updated: Aug 10, 2005 Viral Pneumonia Causes Sections Viral Pneumonia Overview Viral Pneumonia Causes Viral Pneumonia Symptoms When to Seek Medical Care Exams and Tests ... Authors and Editors Dementia is not something that happens only to older people. Learn about causes and treatment options. Stress, fear, or worries can lead to severe anxiety, which can have a serious impact on your life. Do you need to seek help?

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