Feeling Flu-Like but Not Actually Sick? Watch Out for Walking Pneumonia, a Smoldering Lung Infection.

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Feeling flu-like, coughing a bit, but not sick enough to crawl into bed? Although 80 percent of pneumonia cases are treated by your GP, so-called walking pneumonia, a latent pneumonia, often goes unnoticed. Pulmonologist Pascal Van Bleyenbergh explains how to reduce your risk of contracting this disease. "Every year, people end up in intensive care with this variant."

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But they are directly affected by exhaust gas, smoke, or radioactive gas that exists only 1 foot deep in the ground. The lungs do not sleep, so they do not signal alarm when they suffer.