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What Hillary Clinton’s pneumonia diagnosis means, medically-speaking
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Posted on 09/12/2016 8:40:28 AM PDT by MNDude

“At this point, there is no reason to believe that Secretary Clinton will be disabled” by pneumonia, American Lung Association scientific adviser Norman H. Edelman told The Washington Post by phone Sunday night.

The CDC estimates that 2 million people a year fall sick with such milder forms of pneumonia. “Developing walking pneumonia does not mean you have poor health,” Stanford University pulmonologist Mark Nicolls said in an interview with The Washington Post. “Young and healthy people develop walking pneumonia.” It is possible there are even more cases than that CDC estimate, too, as walking pneumonia is hard to diagnose. Symptoms rarely stray from coughing, fever, fatigue and other average maladies.

If Clinton indeed has walking pneumonia, there is a decent chance — odds range between 1 to 50 and 1 to 5 — that the culprit is a bug named Mycoplasma pneumoniae. Among bacteria, M. pneumoniae is an oddity. It is both exceptionally small — one of the smallest organisms on earth — and unusually vulnerable, as it lacks the cell walls that sheath most other bacteria. As far as is known, it is an exclusive human parasite, unable to reproduce outside of warm and wet human organs. M. pneumoniae is spread person-to-person, through droplets expelled through the respiratory tract.

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To: nuconvert

21 posted on 09/12/2016 8:50:23 AM PDT by Deo volente (The islamists want to eradicate us, and will never stop. We need to eradicate them first.)
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To: Grimmy
It was picked because it’s not unusual in older folks and it’s something that can be recovered from..

Especially in 90 minutes./s

22 posted on 09/12/2016 8:50:26 AM PDT by TheCipher (Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself. Mark Twain)
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To: MNDude

I had bronchial pneumonia a number of years ago. I have never been sicker in my life. She has something else along with, maybe bronchitis!


23 posted on 09/12/2016 8:51:35 AM PDT by Ditter (God Bless Texas!)
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To: MNDude

According to People magazine Clinton staffers have been coming down with this pneumonia for weeks. During that time Hillary has been having massive coughing fits yet nobody thought to check and see if she had said pneumonia until Thursday? And then she goes to fundraisers and a 9-ll ceremony? And after she collapses due to said pneumonia, just a few hours later she “feels great”? And despite having said contagious pneumonia she embraces a child she staged a photo op with? And she never bothers to go to the hospital? This is such BS.


24 posted on 09/12/2016 8:51:57 AM PDT by circlecity
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To: Scooter100

Her MD said she was diagnosed with pneumonia on Friday.


25 posted on 09/12/2016 8:52:12 AM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: MNDude

The fact that Hillary contracted Pneumonia is indicative that her immune system has been compromised. It goes to what is really wrong with Hillary’s health.


26 posted on 09/12/2016 8:53:53 AM PDT by Doc91678 (Doc91678)
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To: MNDude

MSN is involved in DISINFORMATION


27 posted on 09/12/2016 8:54:48 AM PDT by Trump_vs_Evil_Witch (Huma Abedin + Hillary Clinton => Muslim Brotherhood asset, lesbian spy ring)
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To: TheCipher

“Young and healthy people develop walking pneumonia.”

And if Clinton was young and healthy it woudln’t be an issue. She’s old and decrepit so even if she actually has pneumonia - and i’m not buying it - it is still a very serious medical issue. It was what finally took my 85 year old father when he was hospitalized for a stroke, as it led to congestive heart failure. And I’ve seen people much younger than that succumb to pneumonia.


28 posted on 09/12/2016 8:54:57 AM PDT by littleharbour
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To: Robert DeLong

“Excellent, she should be healthy fodder for the debates then.”

She’ll probably want to phone it in. (sarc)


29 posted on 09/12/2016 8:55:01 AM PDT by duckman
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To: MNDude

It might well be aspirational pneumonia, a condition common to Parkinson’s sufferers.


30 posted on 09/12/2016 8:55:49 AM PDT by Oberon (John 12:5-6)
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To: MNDude
Monty Python Holy Grail photo: Monty Python and the Holy Grail MontyP.gif "`tis but a scratch!" Sir Hillary
31 posted on 09/12/2016 8:56:09 AM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: MNDude

They just eat the whole story hook line and sinker. CNN is out saying the clip was selectively edited. In fact all the clips of her coughing, her seizures, her fainting, her stumbling are just selective edits. “Hillary says she has pneumonia so that’s the end of it.”


32 posted on 09/12/2016 8:56:15 AM PDT by Organic Panic (Hillary Clinton, the elderly woman's version of "I dindu nuffins.")
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To: MNDude

Of course. The media is already, one day later, out in full force to spread the lie that this is nothing, and that it won’t prevent her from being president.
That will be repeated endlessly for the next few weeks. Even if she “faints” from the heat again. Or coughs. Or stumbles.


33 posted on 09/12/2016 8:56:27 AM PDT by I want the USA back (The media is acting full-on as the Democratic Party's press agency now: Robert Spencer)
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To: MNDude

Pneumonia? I ain’t buying it... and nobody other than Clinton zombies are buying it. When you lie so much, you get tangled in your web of lies. This is just another example.


34 posted on 09/12/2016 8:57:04 AM PDT by Doctor Freeze
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To: MNDude

She may very well have pneumonia and it is likely caused by the same thing that causes her frequent coughing fits... aspirating her own saliva and whatever fluids she has in her mouth. People with neurologic diseases such as Parkinson’s often get and die from pneumonia from aspirating. She also likely has Congestive Heart Failure, which like pneumonia is characterized by fluid in the lungs, but unlike pneumonia is also characterized by swollen feet, ankles and legs. When you are old and sick you can have all these things at the same time.


35 posted on 09/12/2016 8:57:49 AM PDT by fireman15 (The USA will be toast if the Democrats are able to take the Presidency in 2016)
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To: MNDude
Why did they pretend she was over-heated, but no one gave her water, no one 'fanned' her, no on thought to take her jacket off (OK, maybe to hid secrets). She was NOT treated as you would treat a person who is showing signs of heat stress.

They pretended because most people have become overheated, so no big deal. But most people have not had brain damage and the other problems Hillary has.

36 posted on 09/12/2016 8:59:34 AM PDT by Right Wing Assault (Kill TWITTER !! Kill FACEBOOK !! Free MILO !!)
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To: jjotto

Let’s see the X-rays that they obviously had to take in order to correctly diagnose pneumonia.


37 posted on 09/12/2016 9:01:07 AM PDT by Scooter100
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The Mediascum LIES as usual. Even if it is pneumonia, it is not a mild or average situation.... Hillary COLLAPSED completely, it took two people to lift her and shove her into the van, like a sack of potatoes.

She is not mildly ill, she is gravely ill. Even if they can prop her up for a while longer, we are not being given full and honest information.


38 posted on 09/12/2016 9:02:25 AM PDT by Enchante (Hillary's new campaign slogan: "Guilty as hell, free as a bird!! Laws are for peasants!")
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To: jjotto

“she was diagnosed with pneumonia on Friday”

What a coinkydink! That Friday evening she shot off her mouth to a coven of gay, lesbian, bi, trans pervs that the half the country that doesn’t support her is a “basket of deplorables”.
So the lie is a two-fer: she changes the subject from her bigotry AND her unfortunate propensity to tip over in public.
Timberrrrrrrr!


39 posted on 09/12/2016 9:03:06 AM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: MNDude

Oh, I think she has pneumonia all right, but she also has something else, like Parkinson’s that caused the pneumonia.


40 posted on 09/12/2016 9:04:00 AM PDT by CurlyDave
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