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What you don t know about pneumonia: It is the big killer for people of any age By Lisa Gutierrez, The Kansas City Star © Dreamstime/Kansas City Star/TNS Pneumonia isn t only a concern for the elderly. For six hours in a Saint Luke’s Hospital emergency room recently, Dakota Allen worried that he might become a fatal pneumonia statistic. He’d been coughing for weeks. “I overlooked it,” said the 20-year-old who works two jobs, one of them at Operation Breakthrough in Kansas City. “I thought it could be early flu. “Then it just got to the point where I was coughing pretty regularly and I went to the CVS MinuteClinic. That’s when I was first diagnosed with pneumonia.”

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