Walking pneumonia infections rose nationwide as kids returned to school this fall. The infection can be tricky to diagnose, and testing is expensive. Doctors may choose different antibiotics to try ...

Walking pneumonia, a lung infection caused by the bacterium Mycoplasma pneumoniae, tends to be most common among older children and adolescents but in 2024 has been rampant among young children.

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Here are the 7 early warning signs of pneumonia to watch for on World Pneumonia Day 2025 and protect your health before it worsens.

Several states are reporting an uptick in lung infections in young children caused by a common bacteria. In previous years, most pneumonia or acute bronchitis infections caused by M. pneumoniae were ...

A bacterial infection known as walking pneumonia is on the rise in the United States, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has warned. Cases are particularly high among young children.

Cases of "walking pneumonia" — a milder form of the lung infection pneumonia — have spiked in the United States, particularly among young children. Bacterial infections from Mycoplasma pneumoniae, one ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Health officials are seeing an increase of young children in the United States being diagnosed with pneumonia after displaying chest cold symptoms, according to the Centers for Disease ...

Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and collaborators have reported early success with a novel ...

India's common infections are becoming untreatable as widely used antibiotics lose efficacy, according to a new ICMR report.