6 sentences with 'pneumonia'
Example sentences and phrases with the word pneumonia and other words derived from it.
• « I once saw him get up at 3 a.m. to treat a child who was sick with pneumonia because his parents didn't take him to the doctor's office on time. I would have reprimanded them for that oversight; my father never. »
• « One hypothesis is that those with bubonic plague may have contracted pneumonia as a secondary infection, and that pneumonia was therefore another lethal component of the Black Death. »
• « When Peter the Great died (after contracting pneumonia or influenza from diving into the icy Neva to save a drowning man) in 1725, the Russian Empire was now six times larger than it had been under Ivan the Terrible. »
• « They were suffering from serious diseases such as pneumonia, asthma, stroke and others that had long since been eradicated from or never existed in the developed world: malaria, tuberculosis, typhoid and schistosomiasis. Many others arrived with infected wounds or abscesses. »
• « Respiratory infections: 436,000 cases of bronchitis and 190,000 cases of pneumonia occur each year due to passive smoking. »
• « Fortunately, the doctor on duty had seen him on television and knew he had ALS, so he was given medication for pneumonia, a disease to which people with ALS are very prone and which is often fatal. »