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viral pneumonia

n. pneumonia caused by a virus

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Viral pneumonia

Viral pneumonia is a pneumonia caused by a virus. Viruses are one of the two major causes of pneumonia, the other being bacteria; less common causes are fungi and parasites. Viruses are the most common cause of pneumonia in children, while in adults bacteria are a more common cause.

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An acute pancreatic infection, viral pneumonia, an intestinal obstruction, a non-infectious kidney disease centered in the blood vessels of that organ.

He asserted that Vitamin C in such large doses helps with the treatment of hepatitis, mumps, measles, polio, viral pneumonia, viral orchitis, herpes, and influenza.

Then she got sick, just a cold, we thought, but forty-eight hours later she was dead from viral pneumonia.