Respiratory infections among young children have been on the rise since the school year began in August, according to reports from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Over the past six ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Walking pneumonia, a lung infection caused by the bacterium Mycoplasma pneumoniae, tends to be most common among older children ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is sounding the alarm over increased cases of lung infections in the U.S., especially among children, as flu season begins. According to the CDC, ...

The existence of asymptomatic patients, a variety of clinical phenotypes and the varied incubation period of M. pneumoniae infection (1-3 weeks) indicate that the initial inoculated dose of the ...

Children who have coughs that go on for weeks may have a type of walking pneumonia that’s been surging in the U.S. this year, and they may need a different antibiotic regimen to treat it, infectious ...

This chest X-ray image reveals areas of increased opacity in the lungs, indicative of an infection caused by Mycoplasma pneumoniae. Such radiographic findings are essential for diagnosing and ...

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 ...