Adults Quote by Paul A. Offit

Pneumonia is a disease that often flies under the radar of not just the public but even the global health community. It kills more…

— Mandy Moore

Pneumococcal disease is a real threat. Pneumococcal disease is a bacterial infection that causes anything from middle ear infection to pneumonia to meningitis. Children…

— Anthony Fauci

The flu can definitely set you up for bacterial pneumonias.

— Paul A. Offit

I had quite a healthy childhood in the countryside, but I did have double pneumonia aged eight, and was one of the first patients…

— Prunella Scales

“As long as amoxicillin is given to our children who have pneumococci in their noses and throats, whether harmless or not, antibiotic resistance is…

— Martin J. Blaser

In many patients, covid-19 causes a bilateral pneumonia affecting both lungs. Air sacs in the lungs become inflamed and filled with fluid, leading to…

— Leana S. Wen

I had asthma when I was a kid, asthma so bad that it would turn into pneumonia and I almost died several times. Nobody…

— Don McLean

I had pneumonia when I was 18 months old and I was given penicillin, which I was allergic to, and since then my teeth…

— Jess Phillips

In the Mortality Bills, pneumonia is an easy second, to tuberculosis; indeed in many cities the death-rate is now higher and it has become,…

— William Osler

In all, 86 per cent of the increased life expectancy was due to decreases in infectious diseases. And the bulk of the decline in…

— Laurie Garrett

Patients rarely die of the disease from which they suffer. Secondary or terminal infections are the real cause of death.

— William Osler

I fought COVID double bilateral pneumonia - both lungs - and kidney failure in my house.

— Scarface