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secondary pneumonia

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secondary pneumonia
Etymology: L, secundus, second; Gk, pneumon, lung
pneumonia that develops during the course of another disease, such as diphtheria or tularemia.


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Secondary pneumonia may occur in someone who''s suffered lung damage from a noxious chemical or other insult, or it may be caused by the blood-borne spread of bacteria from a distant site.
Bubonic Plague can give rise to secondary pneumonia and can then be transmitted by airborne droplets causing Pneumonic Plague which is extremely virulent.
 
 
 
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