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What Hillary Clinton’s pneumonia diagnosis means, medically-speaking
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Posted on 09/12/2016 8:40:28 AM PDT by MNDude

“At this point, there is no reason to believe that Secretary Clinton will be disabled” by pneumonia, American Lung Association scientific adviser Norman H. Edelman told The Washington Post by phone Sunday night.

The CDC estimates that 2 million people a year fall sick with such milder forms of pneumonia. “Developing walking pneumonia does not mean you have poor health,” Stanford University pulmonologist Mark Nicolls said in an interview with The Washington Post. “Young and healthy people develop walking pneumonia.” It is possible there are even more cases than that CDC estimate, too, as walking pneumonia is hard to diagnose. Symptoms rarely stray from coughing, fever, fatigue and other average maladies.

If Clinton indeed has walking pneumonia, there is a decent chance — odds range between 1 to 50 and 1 to 5 — that the culprit is a bug named Mycoplasma pneumoniae. Among bacteria, M. pneumoniae is an oddity. It is both exceptionally small — one of the smallest organisms on earth — and unusually vulnerable, as it lacks the cell walls that sheath most other bacteria. As far as is known, it is an exclusive human parasite, unable to reproduce outside of warm and wet human organs. M. pneumoniae is spread person-to-person, through droplets expelled through the respiratory tract.

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To: MNDude

“Pneumonia” = last stages of Parkinson’s


41 posted on 09/12/2016 9:04:26 AM PDT by kaehurowing
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To: littleharbour

I think you missed my sarc (/s) tag on the end. I don’t think she has it at all. She went from having no control of her muscles to being able to walk unaided - all in a space of 90 minutes. That was not a result of pneumonia. It wouldn’t clear up that quick in someone that old. She has Parkinsons and it was an episode. She rested for 90 min and was probably given a strong dose of L. Dopa to keep her going for a short while.


42 posted on 09/12/2016 9:06:02 AM PDT by TheCipher (Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself. Mark Twain)
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To: nuconvert
Which means she shouldn’t be spending time around children, especially.

Or meeting, greeting and coughing all over people at fundraisers.

And if, as reports are surfacing, quite a few of her inner circle have been sick with pneumonia during the past few weeks, the doctors should have kept her away from them and also tested her for it as soon as she had symptoms.

43 posted on 09/12/2016 9:07:05 AM PDT by randita
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I’ve done some research on this. Pneumonia is a common secondary condition when Parkinsons advances. The flap that prevents food and fluid from entering the lungs when we eat or drink becomes less responsive. The fluids and foods enter the lungs causing the pneumonia infection. CHF, congestive heart failure is another step along the progression. None of this is good. It’s time to lay the cards of the table and be honest. This has become life and death. Can the posturing for politics just stop please.


44 posted on 09/12/2016 9:07:55 AM PDT by USCG SimTech
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To: randita

It’s all BS


45 posted on 09/12/2016 9:08:29 AM PDT by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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To: MNDude

Full blown AIDS.

Diarrhea that lasts for more than a week

Dry cough

Memory loss, depression and neurological disorders

Pneumonia

Profound, unexplained fatigue

Rapid weight loss

Recurring fever or profuse night sweats

Red, brown, pink or purplish blotches on or under the skin or inside the mouth, nose or eyelids

Swollen lymph glands in the armpits, groin or neck
White spots or unusual blemishes on the tongue, in the mouth, or in the throat

vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv

Infections Associated with AIDS

Because people with AIDS have weakened immune systems, they’re more prone to infections, called opportunistic infections. Opportunistic infections are caused by organisms that typically don’t cause disease in healthy people but affect people with damaged immune systems. These organisms attack when there’s an opportunity to infect.

Deterioration of the immune system is caused by the decline in CD4+ T cells, which are key infection fighters. As soon as HIV enters the body, it begins to destroy these cells.

Symptoms of opportunistic infections common with AIDS include:

Coma

Coughing and shortness of breath

Difficult or painful swallowing

Extreme fatigue

Fever

Mental symptoms such as confusion and forgetfulness

Nausea, abdominal cramps and vomiting

Seizures and lack of coordination

Severe, persistent diarrhea

Severe headaches

Vision loss

Weight loss

All except the weight loss fits her.


46 posted on 09/12/2016 9:10:46 AM PDT by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51. Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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To: Scooter100
Does Chelsea have one of those machines?

Maybe one room in Chelsea's apartment has already been converted into a well-equipped hospital room (I'm not kidding). That way Hillary could get treatment without being photographed going into a hospital.

47 posted on 09/12/2016 9:14:28 AM PDT by Leaning Right (Why am I holding this lantern? I am looking for the next Reagan.)
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To: MNDude
It never even occurs to MSN that she'll might have something other than pneumonia.

Or several somethings in addition to pneumonia.
48 posted on 09/12/2016 9:16:27 AM PDT by Resettozero
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To: Deo volente

I’m stealing that.


49 posted on 09/12/2016 9:17:31 AM PDT by Fido969 (Maybe I';ve been posting for the last 10 years, and rather than spew cr@p you could look up my posts)
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To: MarMema
some kind of muscular/neuro/degenerative thing going that brings pneumonia to the table

Sure looked like a neuromuscular problem yesterday. Frightening watching her right arm stiffly bent at the elbow with palm facing out behind her back. The gentleman assisting her had to pry her arm out. Her legs did not have purposeful movement, quite stiff. This was not a fainting spell, and it did not appear to be jelly-legged weakness. Looked more ominous.

50 posted on 09/12/2016 9:20:08 AM PDT by NautiNurse (Deplorable me!)
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To: MNDude; All

It makes no difference what Hillary has.
It makes no difference what she says or does or what criminal activities it is proven that she is guilty of,
she can still win.
Think she can’t win?
Who would have ever dreamed Americans would elect Obama not once but twice?!
Yes. With an electorate dumb enough to elect the white/Jewish/America hating usurper a second time, she can win.

And if Hillary gets in, she will flood our country with dangerous Muslim ‘refugees’. She has already vowed to do this. (Google it)
She will also continue Obama’s policy of open borders, where not only Mexican and S American illegal criminal aliens flood daily over the border, but dangerous Muslim Jihadists.

The rats will use every dirty trick in the book to put her
or a substitute in the White House.
That’s why we must not become over-confident.
That’s why we must fight for Trump with all we’ve got until the very end.

.


51 posted on 09/12/2016 9:20:39 AM PDT by patriot08 (Post 5th generation Texan-(girl type) ANGRY? REFUSE TO VOTE? HELLO HILLARY!!!)
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To: NautiNurse

It really looked like a vasovagal to me. She has an inability to stand because she is, imo, having frequent vasovagal attacks.


52 posted on 09/12/2016 9:22:52 AM PDT by MarMema
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To: MarMema

Don’t a lot of aids patients actually die of pneumonia?

My understanding is that if you get pnemonia (especially in summer) it is a symptom of something else weakening your immune system - like aids or age.


53 posted on 09/12/2016 9:23:36 AM PDT by Mr. Douglas (Today is your life. What are you going to do with it?)
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To: jacknhoo

weight loss is significant and actually a huge part of it.

So nope. This won’t fly.


54 posted on 09/12/2016 9:23:43 AM PDT by MarMema
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To: luvbach1

I didn’t say it wasn’t serious. But knowing how they like to hide things it’s probably something even more serious.


55 posted on 09/12/2016 9:25:59 AM PDT by V_TWIN
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To: MarMema
It really looked like a vasovagal to me

Not syncopal. Too stiff.

56 posted on 09/12/2016 9:26:02 AM PDT by NautiNurse (Deplorable me!)
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To: NautiNurse

Well you may be correct. Though I have seen people stiff and jerky after a post-or-in-progress blood draw syncope.


57 posted on 09/12/2016 9:31:10 AM PDT by MarMema
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To: MNDude

Her known affinity to booze may have resulted in liver problems and neuropathy in her feet.


58 posted on 09/12/2016 9:36:03 AM PDT by 353FMG (AMERICA MATTERS)
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To: econjack

I’ve had walking pnuemonia. You don’t feel like walking much. Your doctor puts you in the hospital or on forced bedrest at home.


59 posted on 09/12/2016 9:36:10 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: MNDude

Gosh, what a surprise - the WaPo has an inside line straight to another Leftist “specialist/expert”.....


60 posted on 09/12/2016 9:40:30 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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