Diffuse panbronchiolitis: Facts

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Camp Beauregard, an American Civil War camp in western Kentucky, was abandoned in less than six months due to over 1,000 cases of typhoid and pneumonia?
General John B. Grayson died of pneumonia and tuberculosis three months after he joined the Confederate Army, without fighting a single battle?
Julius Garfinckel, founder of the department store Garfinckel's, died from pneumonia on his 64th birthday?
four-time All-American football end and millionaire lumberman Tom Shevlin (pictured) died of pneumonia after contracting a cold while training the Yale football team?

breaker boys (pictured) were at risk for acid burns, asthma, black lung disease, accidental amputation, and death by smothering or crushing while working in coal breakers?
exhaled nitric oxide can be measured in a breath test for asthma and airway inflammation?

ceftaroline is a novel antibiotic against MRSA and other resistant bacterial strains and is under clinical trial as a treatment for infectious diseases such as community-acquired pneumonia?

discontinuous gas exchange is a respiratory system used by over 50 species of insect?
Aerosteon, a 9-metre (30 ft) long bipedal carnivorous dinosaur that lived approximately 84 million years ago, had air-sacs in its bones similar to those in the respiratory systems of modern birds?
patients practice preoperative fasting before an operation in order to prevent pulmonary aspiration of stomach contents?
the nematode Capillaria aerophila is a parasite that infests the respiratory system of carnivorous mammals, including dogs and foxes?
the human bocavirus is the fourth most commonly found virus in samples collected from the respiratory system?

Preparing for Emergencies was a British Home Office programme to increase public safety after several major disasters, including the Madrid bombings, SARS outbreak and UK foot and mouth crisis?