Severe pneumococcalpneumonia still occurs, even in young to middle aged persons (not just the very young and the very old) and has a mortality rate of 20%!
严重肺炎球菌性肺炎仍然发生,甚至在青年到中年人中(并非小儿和老年人)发生,死亡率为20%。
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Researchers led by Daniel Musher, MD, studied the records of all 170 patients hospitalized with pneumococcalpneumonia at a Texas Veterans Affairs medical center from 2001 to 2005.
Now, medical research has provided even more warnings. Advisers to America's Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report that pneumococcalpneumonia threatens smokers more than nonsmokers.