Infections tend to be most common among older children and adolescents but in 2024 have been rampant among young children, ...

As noted above, the thing about walking pneumonia that distinguishes it from traditional pneumonia is the relative mildness ...

Walking pneumonia has been steadily infecting more people since last spring, says the agency, with younger children ...

As we march into the heart of respiratory virus season, here's what to know about what's circulating in Seattle and ...

A rise in cases of a contagious lung infection across the United States is causing alarm, especially for parents of young children. Walking pneumonia usually sickens school-aged children and teens ...

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At Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, 97 patients with pneumonia went to the emergency room between September and November, ...

Walking pneumonia symptoms also tend to come on gradually and outlast those of the common cold or flu. (Some, like a cough, can even linger for months.) In young kids, walking pneumonia can also ...

Health experts warn that only prompt treatment can stop damage to the respiratory tract in severe cases caused by mycoplasma ...