Question:
Cp and Ms are two different problems. Cp is due to a injury. Ms is a disease of the central nervous system. With Ms you can either end up with lesions of the brain , These lesions are also called plaques. Or the spinal cord. This happens when the mylin that protects the nerve fibers are attacked and are either destroyed or damaged. When this happens the electrical impulses to and from the brain are disrupted. This is a strange disease and may effect anyone with it differently.

Answer: think that most CP is from injury to the child/person from birth or accident. But I do know of one fellow who is a spastic diplegic (normal birth and delivery for him) who has two children who delivered on time with no complications and also have spastic dipledgia. I don't know if its his opinion or if he was told this, but he did tell me one day that it was genetic.

This is called an anoxic or hypoxic brain injury. The medical acronym is HIE for H-ypoxic (lack of oxygen) I-schemic (decreased or absent blood flow) E-ncephalopathy (abnormality of the brain tissue). Pneumonia by itself is unlikely to cause CP, unless there is a severe hypoxic, ischemic insult to the brain; these patients usually require prolonged mechanical ventilation and have obvious signs of brain injury at the time.

I could debate CP being caused by an accident- define accident- there are children born with cp due to lack of oxygen to their brain while still inutero. some develop cp due to a high stress labor situation-"born blue". or because the infant was born too prematurely and underdeveloped. i wouldn't necessarily call it an injury. as for me there is debate as to how i developed my "mild" case of CP- a stressfull high delivery, or several illnesses early in infancy- i was hospitalized with pneumonia. just wanted to clarify something- cp can be genetic