It's World Pneumonia Day!

It's #WorldPneumoniaDay
#Pneumonia accounts for 14% of all deaths of children under 5 years old, killing over 740 000 per year. It's the single largest infectious cause of death in children worldwide 🌎🌍🌏

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— World Health Organization (WHO) (@WHO) November 12, 2021

Why is pneumonia so dangerous? - Eve Gaus and Vanessa Ruiz

Explore how pneumonia attacks the tiny air sacs in your lungs and how your immune system works to fight off the infection.

Every time you breathe, air travels down the trachea, through a series of channels, and then reaches little clusters of air sacs in the lungs. These tiny sacs facilitate a crucial exchange: allowing oxygen from the air we breathe into the bloodstream and clearing out carbon dioxide. Pneumonia wreaks havoc on this exchange system. Eve Gaus and Vanessa Ruiz detail how pneumonia attacks the lungs.
Lesson by Eve Gaus and Vanessa Ruiz, directed by Artrake Studio.

 

Some people w/ #COVID19 have developed pneumonia. #Pneumonia is a lung infection that causes mild to severe illness in people of all ages. Lower your risk w/ vaccines & other healthy living practices. Learn more this #WorldPneumoniaDay: https://bit.ly/2REyqYe #EveryBreathCounts

Some people w/ #COVID19 have developed pneumonia. #Pneumonia is a lung infection that causes mild to severe illness in people of all ages. Lower your risk w/ vaccines & other healthy living practices. Learn more this #WorldPneumoniaDay: https://t.co/2laex0SMVC #EveryBreathCounts pic.twitter.com/MEBwMRjpD0

— CDC (@CDCgov) November 12, 2021