But for people who have served on presidential campaigns, her illness isn’t that surprising. “In every presidential campaign I’ve worked on, senior staff, candidates, someone was getting pneumonia and the entire plane was just a hacking, coughing disaster,” said Joe Trippi, who has been working on Democratic presidential campaigns since 1980. “You’re usually eating a lot of terrible food, working long hours. You’re around a lot of people, which of course increases your exposure to germs. And then there was the booze: At the end of the day, staffers or reporters often go out drinking.

Source: Huffington Post September 12, 2016 22:18 UTC