PhotoIf Hillary Clinton brushed aside medical advice to rest after getting a diagnosis of mild pneumonia, she was risking developing a more serious case, medical experts said Monday. If a patient does not get better after taking antibiotics, more testing should begin, Dr. Schaffner said. Adults “are very, very rarely carriers of bacterial pneumonia,” Dr. Schaffner said. Adult-driven outbreaks in rare cases occur in close quarters like submarines and prisons, but adults do not normally carry pneumonia bacteria in their noses and throats as children do. That is on the low side of a normal range, and could contribute to a tendency to faint, Dr. Schaffner noted.

Source: New York Times September 12, 2016 20:13 UTC