This bacteria mainly attack persons with weakend immune systems including eldery, alcoholics, nursing home patients
Transmission droplets-first grows in mouth and throat and then carried to lungs
incubation period 1 to 3 days
symptoms start as normal pneumonia symptoms cough fever chest pain
How ever they have more chills and sputum is red and gelatinous
they have a capsule thus resisting phagocytosis
Death rate without treatment is 50 to 80% death occurring quicker than other pneumonia patients
Klebsiella pneumonia