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To: decimon
Staph, also bacterial, is likely the most common pneumonia opportunist of influenza?

Yes, last time that I checked.

Strep, however, is likely a more serious infection and may also follow flu as pneumonia?

It's not necessarily more serious. They can both be deadly. How bad any microbial infection is subject to a number of variables, e.g. number of invading organisms, "route" of invasion, factors affecting virulence, host immune system, etc.

The pneumococcal vaccine will in most people protect against a strep form of pneumonia piggybacking a bout of flu?

Pneumovax 23 should cover those 23 subtypes of pneumococcus. Folks older than 65 should get it. They only have to get it once.

11 posted on 02/04/2010 1:46:56 PM PST by neverdem (Xin loi minh oi)
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To: neverdem

Thank you.


12 posted on 02/04/2010 2:03:27 PM PST by decimon
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