An uptick of mycoplasma pneumonia cases in children has caused outbreaks in Ohio, Massachusetts, China and Denmark, though officials say they aren’t connected or linked to a “new or novel” virus. A ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The trending term is just a new name for an existing illness known as "walking pneumonia," and experts say it's not worth "alarm ...

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 ...

Pediatric pneumonia outbreaks in Ohio and Massachusetts are not linked to respiratory illness upticks in China or elsewhere – and they’re not the result of a novel virus, health officials stressed ...

Mycoplasma pneumoniae is a common cause of mild respiratory illness, sometimes referred to as "walking pneumonia." Symptom onset is "typically gradual," the CDC says. It can include fever, a cough, ...

Over the past several weeks, you might have noticed a flurry of ominous headlines about “mysterious” or “unusual” outbreaks of childhood pneumonia and/or “white-lung syndrome” in China, Europe, and ...

Amid a pneumonia outbreak among kids in Ohio, cases of the lung infection are rising nationally and other parts of the world — but it’s not unusual for this time of year in the U.S. and no reason to ...