It's just way to early for us to be talking about "longer term" effects. In my 20s, I remember it took nearly a month to recovery from pneumonia. I was lucky. A

It's just way to early for us to be talking about "longer term" effects. In my 20s, I remember it took nearly a month to recovery from pneumonia. I was lucky. Another friend of mine got pneumonia from a viral infection and was out three months and had to take an Incomplete on all his classes for the semester. All infections have the potential for permanent effects, but they're often not common. An interesting example is Lymes Disease. We still don't understand long term Lymes, but for some reason, the immune system continues to react long after the infection is gone.