Pneumonia, a lung infection, can be severe and even deadly for people in high-risk populations, such as infants, children 2 years old or younger, adults 65 years old or older, and people with weak ...

Ontario doctors report an increase in walking pneumonia cases – especially in young patients. Over the past month, Dr. Alan Drummond, an emergency room physician and family doctor in rural eastern ...

Among them is so-called walking pneumonia, a relatively mild form of pneumonia that has been unusually common in young children this year. The reason it’s referred to as walking pneumonia is ...

Drummond has treated five or six patients with pneumonia during almost every shift he has worked in the past month, many of them children, teens and young adults. Sometimes he has diagnosed ...

There are two types of vaccines to protect against pneumococcal disease. Pneumococcal 15-Valent Conjugate Vaccine (Pneu-C-15), Vaxneuvance Pneumococcal 20-Valent Conjugate Vaccine‎ (Pneu-C-20), ...

Cases of ‘walking pneumonia’ are on the rise in Michigan and nationwide The bacterial infection can cause symptoms like fever, headache and a slowly worsening cough Most people who get infected ...

PETALING JAYA – Pneumonia surpassed heart disease to become Malaysia’s leading cause of death in 2023, prompting urgent calls for enhanced respiratory health measures and vaccination efforts.

Walking pneumonia, a mild but infectious lung disease with many viral and bacterial causes, is hitting higher numbers across Canada and the U.S. Dr. Matthew Tenenbaum of Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph ...

Hospitals are reporting that walking pneumonia infections in children are surging across the country, raising questions about whether they're peaking and whether the trend is unusual this year.

Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and walking pneumonia, while sharing some common symptoms like cough and fever, have distinct characteristics. RSV, a viral infection prevalent in children ...

Some hospitals in the U.S. are seeing an increase in RSV and higher levels of "walking pneumonia" among young children despite overall respiratory illness activity remaining low nationally.