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Swine Flu Characteristics Becoming More Evident
Health & Wellness  (tags: swine flu, death, warning, pneumonia, lungs )

Lone
- 1313 days ago - washingtonpost.com
As swine flu continues to spread around the globe, a clearer and in some ways more unnerving picture of the most serious cases has started to emerge, indicating that the virus could
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Sign Petition: World Pneumonia Day
Health & Wellness  (tags: world, humanitarian, relief, aid, Pneumonia, Africa, Asia, Central, South, America, vaccines, medicines, global, health, children, illness, disease, death, prevention, safety, treatment, politics, government, money )

Tom
- 1453 days ago - change.org
Pneumonia is the #1 killer of children. Every 15 seconds a child dies from pneumonia. For the first time we have new vaccines to prevent these deaths and antibiotics to treat pneumonia - BUT THEY DO NOT REACH THE WORLD'S POOREST CHILDREN.
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Sign Petition: Fight the #1 Killer of Children Worldwide
Health & Wellness  (tags: world, children, Pneumonia, poverty, vaccines, prevention, protection, treatment, medicine, safety, health, illness, disease, risks, humans, healthcare )

Tom
- 1492 days ago - change.org
Pneumonia is the #1 killer of children. 2 million children under 5 die every year. Many more endure pain and suffering. Make reducing child pneumonia deaths a top global priority for our representatives and get vaccines to the world's poorest children.
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Deadly New Form of MRSA Emerges - USA
Health & Wellness  (tags: usa, world, san francisco, MRSA, pneumonia, health, blood, blood poisoning, bacteria )

Chrissy
- 1953 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
A deadly strain of the superbug MRSA which can lead to a flesh-eating form of pneumonia has emerged. Research suggests it may be more prevalent among the gay community - the gay San Francisco district of Castro appears to have been hardest hit.
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Docs: Home Care OK for Kids' Pneumonia
Health & Wellness  (tags: health, children, pneumonia, doctors, illness, humans, medicine )

Danielle
- 1966 days ago - news.yahoo.com
LONDON - Children with severe pneumonia can be treated just as effectively at home as in a hospital, according to new research. Doctors in Pakistan found that children taking antibiotics at home were as likely to survive serious pneumonia as those treated
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Killer Cold Virus Ad14 Appears in U.S.
Health & Wellness  (tags: outbreaks, cold virus, U.S., Ad14, virulent, pneumonia, death, humans )

Eduardo
- 2013 days ago - webmd.com
A virulent new form of an old cold virus is spreading in the U.S., causing severe pneumonia and death even in healthy adults.The virus is adenovirus type 14 or Ad14. The cases came in outbreaks in Oregon, Washington, and Texas.
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