Francis, who lost part of a lung to a respiratory infection in his youth and has been plagued by ailing health recently, last ...
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Pope Francis has been diagnosed with double pneumonia after being hospitalised last week. The Vatican said the 88-year-old's ...
The pope is susceptible to lung infections after he developed pleurisy as an adult and had part of a lung removed at age 21.
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Pope Francis, who is spending his sixth day in hospital for treatment of a respiratory infection, is alert and ate breakfast ...