Severe pneumococcal pneumonia 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 pneumococcal pneumonia at a Texas Veterans Affairs medical center from 2001 to 2005.

由医学博士Daniel Musher领衔的研究团队对2001年到2005年间因患肺炎链球菌性肺炎而在Texas Veterans Affairs医学中心住院的17名病人的资料进行了研究。

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Now, medical research has provided even more warnings. Advisers to America's Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report that pneumococcal pneumonia threatens smokers more than nonsmokers.

现在医学研究已经提供了更多的警示，美国疾病控制与预防中心的建议者报道，肺炎对于吸烟者的威胁远高于非吸烟者。

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In fact, one paper Mercola cites, which noted a 71% increase in the prevalence of 19A, also said there had been a dramatic 44% reduction in invasive pneumococcal disease, including pneumonia, meningitis, and bloodstream infections and that includes the increase in 19A. The new vaccine, Prevnar 13, introduced in 2010, protects against the deadly 19A strain, which now appears to be on the wane.

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But in 2000 Wyeth scored a huge hit with Prevnar, the first vaccine for infants against pneumococcal bacteria, a common cause of pneumonia and ear infections.

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The donor commitments provide manufacturers with an incentive to build manufacturing capacity to produce the pneumococcal vaccine, which protects children against the leading cause of pneumonia, which in turn is the leading cause of death for children under age 5.

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