Is pnuemonia can easily be transmitted to someone?!
Question:
Is pnuemonia can easily be transmitted to someone?
My boardmate has pnuemonia. Is it possible too that I can acquire that disease if I'm not keeping away from him?
Answers:
The cold virus that started the cough in the first place is contagious. But the pneumonia part of the illness down in the lungs is far less contagious. People who are exposed to someone with pneumonia may catch the normal cough and cold symptoms of the virus, but usually don't progress to pneumonia. The formation of the pneumonia is not determined by the particular cold virus or bacteria that the person has, but rather by each person's susceptibility in their own lungs.