Why pneumonia spares 'cool kids'

Child deaths caused by pneumonia are strongly linked to undernutrition, lack of safe water and sanitation and indoor air pollution. [iStockphoto]

Children under five years and who become symptomatic before they reach 18 have been cited as one of the biggest threats not only in Kenya, but globally.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) lists malaria, pneumonia, diarrhoea and TB as accounting for 29 per cent of under five deaths.