F1 legend Michael Schumacher, in a coma since his skiing fall late last year, is now reportedly suffering from pneumonia.<\/p>\n
The major German daily Bild-Zeiting said that two and a half weeks since doctors began trying to wake him, the former Ferrari and Mercedes driver is now on antibiotics to treat the lung condition.<\/p>\n
“The consequences are not yet clear,” the newspaper’s correspondents said.<\/p>\n
“Whether the waking up process was stopped because of the infection is not known.”<\/p>\n
Schumacher’s manager Sabine Kehm said: “We do not comment on speculation.”<\/p>\n
Professor Heinzpeter Moecke, of a Hamburg hospital, told Bild: “Pneumonia is generally a serious and dangerous disease, because the body is supplied with less oxygen and is weaker.”<\/p>\n
He said comatose patients sometimes contract pneumonia because ventilation prevents coughing.<\/p>\n
“A healthy person coughs or swallows several times per minute, usually without noticing it.\u00a0 This protects the lungs,” said Moecke.<\/p>\n
Schumacher’s former Ferrari teammate Felipe Massa told reporters in Sao Paulo this week that he recently visited his friend in the Grenoble hospital.<\/p>\n
“I went to see him on a day when there was nobody from the press there.<\/p>\n
“I stayed by his side for a long time,” said Massa.\u00a0 “It was good to be there.<\/p>\n
“It just looked like he was sleeping, like any of us sleeps.<\/p>\n
“I’m really hopeful everything will be ok and that he will wake up and recover fully,” said the Williams driver.<\/p>\n
Massa said he is receiving daily updates from the Schumacher circle about the great German’s condition.<\/p>\n
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