Complications of Pneumonia
Abscess. An abscess in the lung is a thick-walled, pus-filled cavity that forms when infection has destroyed lung tissue. It typically occurs as a result of aspiration pneumonia, when a mixture of organisms is carried into the lung. Untreated abscesses can cause hemorrhage (bleeding) in the lung, but targeted antibiotic therapy significantly reduces their danger. Abscesses are more common with Staphylococcus aureus, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, or Klebsiella pneumoniae, and are uncommon with Streptococcus pneumoniae.

Between 5 and 10 million people get pneumonia in the United States each year, and more than 1 million people are hospitalized due to the condition. As a result, pneumonia is the third most frequent cause of hospitalizations (births are first, and heart disease is second). About 500,000 children are hospitalized for respiratory infections each year, and a third of them have pneumonia.

He said the cases he's seen in Polk County were all middle-aged adults with a few underlying health conditions.

"These may be the patients that are obese," Schmunk said. "Obesity restricts your ability to breathe and clear the virus from your upper respiratory."

He also said that some of the patients had diabetes.

Schmunk said his urging people to get the vaccine.

"The thing that concerns me the most is, you still have people out there they believe that if I get the vaccine, the shot, then I'm going to get the flu," he said. "You can't get the flu from the shot."

Originally posted by starwarsisreal
reply to post by apacheman

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so have anyone seen low flying planes spraying something a few days before in the area?

Originally posted by Donkey_Dean
reply to post by marg6043

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I am not here to debate something I know for a fact. Have you dealt with H1N1? obviously not! I have and even know of some related deaths that are not reported as swine deaths. H1N1 is bad bad news!

Originally posted by invernal
It's almost hard to believe the coroner since he advocates the vaccine. However, I think he probably is telling the truth about the deaths. I say this because, again, the flu that my cousin had was a weird one, while so many said it was nothing. Don't let your rightful anger of the implications of this prevent you from seeing a potentially real biological danger. My cousin had collapsing lungs and has surgery scars to show for it (granted, she had aggravating factors but the symptoms were somewhat similar to bird flu and their progression seemed strange). Still, in comparison to this hemorrhagic sickness, my bout was nothing.

I'd better get hold of much more powerful remedies than what I used the last time around. Does anyone know the status of Codex Alimentarius?? If that thing goes through and extends to the U.S., then some of us may have no way to get through this (unless you can get Tamiflu, are able to take it, and it works for you). Just in time for the "plague".

And I agree that the testing isn't a simple thing. My case matched the clinical picture and the nasal swab supposedly ruled out regular flu (I disagree with the methodology but I was taking so many supplements I wonder if anything would've shown up on a test). I was told that only hospitalized patients get specific H1N1 tests. I couldn't believe it when this spring it came out that they would no longer test everyone suspected. My cousin said that the people who were dying of this have been the people sent home with no treatment.

Has anyone noticed public schools are starting to hold vaccination clinics now? Whole bunch of them, and numbers to increase soon. Check your local public school website. This really confirms the agenda for me. It's getting too close to what has been predicted, for comfort.

Plus, remember what Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell said in October of last year?? He said there would be an event worse than 9/11. With all the other warnings around the same time from world leaders (including Joe Biden and I under "wintermarches" and others listed a lot of them in past threads), I think they knew something and I think some were scared. If the elite feel an obligation to warn us of their plans, then they did it. Maybe this isn't the big deadly germ, but just because pneumonia exists doesn't mean this doesn't also. If this is the killer, it's right on schedule.

McConnell said the president-elect's excitement "is going to be dampened somewhat when he begins to focus on the realities of the myriad of changes and challenges we are going to face in the future." One of those "challenges" include the prospect of an attack by a biological agent, which he said might "create casualties greater than 9/11."

CNN article

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