I do not have bursitis.

Your compass contains alcohol. It might kill the infection.

The immune system shuts down, inflammation is inhibited, white blood cells are reduced, and susceptibility to disease increases.

And yes they die, drowning in their own fluids, of pneumonia.

Audience member One of the things I've heard is that the real death cause when you get a flu is the associated pneumonia, and that a pneumonia vaccine may offer you 50 percent better chance of survival.

But with new or better vaccines for malaria, TB, HlV, pneumonia, diarrhea, flu, we could end suffering that has been on the Earth since the beginning of time.

And what does happen with that eventually is pneumonia sets in and liver, kidney, brain damage.

Implanted medical devices, where people don't have to die of infections anymore if you can seal the thing up.

And infection would continue to claim a majority of surgical patients until the next big revolution in surgery, which was aseptic technique.

But with new or better vaccines for malaria, TB, HIV, pneumonia, diarrhea, flu, we could end suffering that has been on the Earth since the beginning of time.

We prescribe these drugs, we stockpile them for emergencies on the understanding that they will reduce the number of complications, which means pneumonia and which means death.

Then there's all kinds of other applications. Implanted medical devices, where people don't have to die of infections anymore if you can seal the thing up.

As with the pneumonic form of bubonic plague, it was associated with breakdown of lung tissue which would cause blood to appear at the lips.

But what happened was that he had to be on medication that, at that time Diflucan, which in the States is used for yeast infections cost 30 dollars a pill.