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Author: Gina Kolata
Published on: 18/02/2025 | 00:00:00

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Pope Francis, who remains hospitalized, has bilateral pneumonia. The term simply means pneumonia in both lungs, the Vatican says. In general, pneumonia is an infection of the small airways of the lungs. Strep pneumonia can involve both lungs, but usually is confined to one lobe of one lung. Other causes include respiratory syncytial virus, Legionella, mycoplasma and chlamydia. Gina Kolata reports on diseases and treatments, how treatments are discovered and tested.

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Pope Francis, who remains hospitalized, has bilateral pneumonia, the Vatican said on Tuesday.

The term simply means pneumonia in both lungs, said Dr. James Musser, director of the center for infectious diseases at the Houston Methodist Research Institute. He added that, without examining a patient, he could not say anything specific about his condition.