Be careful with this, everybody.
Legionnaires Disease is noncontagious bacterial pneumonia. So are most forms of aspiration pneumonia. So are most healthcare-associated pneumonias (HCAP). So are pneumonias from airway obstruction, as in lung cancer, lymphoma, and certain other cancers with lung metastases.
I don’t know what Dr. Wolf was thinking when he wrote this, but it’s not even close to true.
At least one person read your comment and appreciated it.
After Legionella grows and multiplies in a building water system, that contaminated water then has to spread in droplets small enough for people to breathe in. People are exposed to Legionella when they breathe in mist (small droplets of water in the air) containing the bacteria. One example might be from breathing in droplets sprayed from a hot tub that has not been properly cleaned and disinfected. Less commonly, Legionella can be spread by aspiration of drinking water, which is when water “goes down the wrong pipe,” into the trachea (windpipe) and lungs instead of down the digestive tract. People at increased risk of aspiration include those with swallowing difficulties. In general, Legionnaires’ disease and Pontiac fever are not spread from one person to another. However, this may be possible in rare cases.
In other words something causes you to get non-contagious Pneumonia it doesn't just spontaneously occur in a healthy person.
Pneumonia is a condition brought on by an infection in the lungs. It seems there are plenty of people that think you can “catch” it and I’m surprised so many FReepers are ignorant of the causes.
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I am not a doctor, from the description given by Bardack and credible references (john hopkins, mayo, CDC) it’s probably aspiration pneumonia.
The A in HCAP actually is ACQUIRED not assisted.
Are you suggesting that Hillary has been exposed to legionella? And while it is not transmitted person to person it can be rosolized....that is what happened at several hotels with large outbreaks.pneumonias are always about fluid in the lungs..... Aspiration is material that gets caught in airways....not bacterial at all.......secondary pneumonias that are the result of other more severe diseases are not typically referred to in that way. Usually the patient is identified with a primary giagnostic....oh and by the way....
> Be careful with this, everybody.
Yes. Absolutely.
Probable Person-to-Person Transmission of Legionnaires’ Disease
http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc1505356
Well, it was reported that other people in her campaign staff also had it, so (if they could be telling truth) aspiration pneumonia would be ruled out. That is, barring some uniquely weird activity like a group hurl during a yoga routine.
See my previous post above. Dr. Wolf is allowing his agenda to conflict with his objectivity.
Precisely.
We need to stop jumping on everything with our heads up our butts.
We just look stupid. Then everyone knows not to listen to us.
At least pick apart something that truly doesn’t jibe...such as, why does she seem like something more than pneumonia has been going on a long, long time? Chronic, rather than acute?
Thank you and BTTT