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Pneumonitis or pulmonitis is a general term that refers to inflammation of lung tissue.Many factors can cause pneumonitis including breathing in animal dander aspiration (inhaling small food particles or vomit down the wrong pipe) and receiving radiation therapy to the chest.Pneumonitis was listed as the one of the top 15 leading causes of death (at number 15) in the United States as of 2010 overtaking homicide which dropped off the list.