Michael Schumacher faces further setbacks as the Formula 1 race ace battles pneumonia

FORMULA 1 legend Michael Schumacher is facing a new battle after developing pneumonia, it was claimed last night.
SETBACK: Michael Schumacher suffered the lung infection last week as doctors began to bring him out of the induced coma 
 

The German suffered the lung infection last week as French doctors began to bring him out of the induced coma he has been in since December 29.

Reports in Germany say Schumacher is being treated with strong anti-biotics by doctors at the University Hospital in Grenoble but the full affect on his fragile health is not known.

Germany newspaper Bild, which has close contacts with the seven-times world champion’s inner circle, revealed the setback to his recovery.

Pneumonia is among the most common life-threatening conditions that can afflict people in Schumacher’s position.

It affects almost one in two of those who have been in a coma as long as the motor racing superstar.
The lack of a normal swallowing mechanism can make saliva run into the lungs and trigger the potentially lethal respiratory infection.

Schumacher, 45, has now been in a coma for nearly seven weeks since being airlifted from the ski slopes of the French resort of Meribel, after falling and hitting his head on a rock.

It has been reported that his wife Corinna, 44, who regularly makes a 200-mile round trip from their Switzerland home, spends hours talking to her husband to try to help him regain consciousness.