Pneumonia

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Bernie Mac died on August 9, 2008, at age 50 from pneumonia that developed in the context of sarcoidosis, a rare inflammatory disease. In most verified reports, his death was at...

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Tim Considine, former child actor best known for playing Frank Hardy in The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries television series, died from pneumonia-related complications on Febru...

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Operatic soprano Jessye Norman died on September 30, 2019. The official manner of death was pneumonia, with underlying idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis noted as a significant contr...

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No, simply being outside in cold weather does not cause pneumonia. Pneumonia is an infection that inflames the air sacs in one or both lungs, most often due to bacteria, viruses...

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Bernie Mac died from complications of pneumonia in August 2008. The comedian had been hospitalized in Chicago with a severe respiratory infection and underlying inflammatory con...

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Brittany Murphy died on December 20, 2009, at age 32 in Los Angeles, California. The Los Angeles County Department of Medical Examiner–Coroner ruled her cause of death as pneu...

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Lord Snowdon, born Antony Armstrong-Jones, died on 13 January 2017 at King Edward VII Hospital in London. The immediate clinical cause of death was pneumonia, arising in the con...

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Charles Edward Murphy, often referenced in inquiries regarding the comedian and actor Eddie Murphy, died from cardiac arrest related to complications of pneumonia. This status c...

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Bob Hope died on July 27, 2003, at age 97 from pneumonia-related complications, following a period of limited mobility and declining health. Pneumonia, a lung infection often em...

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Johnny Carson died from respiratory failure resulting from pneumonia. In the months before his death, he had been hospitalized multiple times for breathing issues and other age-...