Over the past 70 years, physicians have noticed the association between vitamin C deficiency and pneumonia – a serious health condition that claims over 50,000 lives a year. Pneumonia is inflammation of the lung caused by bacterial or viral infection, in which the air sacs fill with puss and may become solid. This infection can affect one lung or both lungs, resulting in double pneumonia. Pneumonia is generally more serious when it affects older adults, infants and young chil