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What you don't know about pneumonia: It is the 'big killer' for people of any age

What you don t know about pneumonia: It is the big killer for people of any age
By Lisa Gutierrez, The Kansas City Star
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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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