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 ...

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.

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.

Sometimes they may also feel nauseous. Symptoms are similar to flu, but people with pneumonia nearly always have a cough (often with mucky sputum). Other symptoms are shortness of breath ...

Nationwide rates of emergency room visits for babies with Mycoplasma pneumoniae are on track to surpass rates for school-age children, data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...

ARLINGTON, Va. − Infections of the bacteria that cause walking pneumonia, a lesser evil of the more serious illness of pneumonia, are seeing a dramatic jump after a lengthy decline that came ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published an alert last month warning people about the uptick in walking pneumonia cases. The infection, which is caused by the bacteria Mycoplasma ...

Public health officials are warning of an uptick in whooping cough and pneumonia cases in Massachusetts and nationwide. Whooping cough, formally known as pertussis, can present like the common ...