OSF HealthCare: World Pneumonia Day
November 14, 2019
November 14, 2019
PEORIA, Illinois, Nov. 14 -- OSF HealthCare issued the following news:
It's not unusual to hear talk about increased cases of influenza or measles in children, but such discussions about pneumonia are less common. The fact is more than 800,000 children under the age of 5 worldwide died last year from pneumonia,with most deaths occurring in children under two years old. While most healthy children can fight off the infection,children with compromised immune systems from malnutrition . . .
It's not unusual to hear talk about increased cases of influenza or measles in children, but such discussions about pneumonia are less common. The fact is more than 800,000 children under the age of 5 worldwide died last year from pneumonia,with most deaths occurring in children under two years old. While most healthy children can fight off the infection,children with compromised immune systems from malnutrition . . .