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I've been having a persistent cold the last weeks, and when I developed nasty cough and quite a bit of fever on top of that I decided it was time to see the doc.
Turns out I have pneumonia.
Then I realize, my grandma died of pneumonia.
Heck, a hundred years ago it was a hit or miss if you survived a pneumonia.
So here's one  for Alexander Fleming. One of the most underrated people in history.
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Indeed - and a bigger hand for Edward Jenner[^] - who probably saved more lives than any other single human.
Both heroes indeed.
P.S. Get well soon!
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Quite right you are.
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Even today there is some real risk in this disease because there are antiboitica resistency or problems on the cure like side effects. These resitencies can get a mayor thread in the future.
In the third world (and also the second) not everybody gets proper medicinical aid. 
Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany
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It's freaky to realize that people my mothers age (87) can count the number of schoolmates who died of polio or diseases we don't think much of today.
A half century ago, my youngest granddaughter (born last December) would have died or had severe impairment due to postnatal complications.
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Make sure that kid doesn't grow up to be an anti-vaxxer or anti-GMO.
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If you look into Pasteur, you'll find the day-to-day health impact also near the top.
I had pneumonia some months ago. I only realized it because my ribs hurt a bit when I coughed. Part of the improvement is not the antibiotics and immunizations: we're just a lot better fed and healthier than before. Still - it's science that brought us that, as well.
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True that, brother.
Jeremy Falcon
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I can read and speak German, so that's no problem (I'm married to a German, which is sometimes a problem  )
The problem you're referring to is called Greed.
On a slightly related note, the antibiotics I got first didn't help. It didn't have anything to do with antibiotika resistance, but the fact that I have a so called atypical pneumonia caused by mycoplasma[^], which is not responding to classic penicillin.
So I'm getting Doxycycline instead, which is dirt cheap to produce and is therefore used as an animal feed additive!  (You can relate that to antibiotika resistance)
Something is really sick in this world.
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Are Bics rarely stolen in Aspen?
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You've just invented a new meaning for "flick my Bic"
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Meinks you might be right.
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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there's also Penn State,
but what is the state? retracted or extended?
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Do not switch off your computer.
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Don't forget PenIsland[^]
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I thougt triple-X rated was not allowed....
In Word you can only store 2 bytes. That is why I use Writer.
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Know why they call them lighters?
Because every time you use one they become lighter.
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Is that why they call some guys brokers as well?
I'm pretty sure I would not like to live in a world in which I would never be offended.
I am absolutely certain I don't want to live in a world in which you would never be offended.
Freedom doesn't mean the absence of things you don't like.
Dave
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Was this the penultimate thought of the day?
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That's inkreadibly bad. Another blotter on your record.
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Write you are!
Jeremy Falcon
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It's obvious your Mum is your Dad (11)
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The answer to this is completely transparent.
This space for rent
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And I was going to make him suffer for that one for a while... 
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