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Pneumonia can still be contracted today, if that's what you are asking, yes. There are pneumonia vaccines today so the threat is not nearly as large as it was in years past however, 55,477 people died from pneumonia in 2009 and 5.4% of hospital inpatient deaths were from pneumonia in 2006.

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