EYEWITNESS NEWS (WBRE/WYOU) — If you’ve had a lingering cough recently you are not alone. There is a chance the culprit is not flu, COVID-19, or RSV, but mycoplasma pneumonia. “Walking pneumonia is a ...

For the second half of the 19th century and the early part of the 20th, pneumonia was a leading cause of death that killed hundreds of thousands of people. Sir William Osler – usually considered the ...

Walking pneumonia is a milder form of pneumonia, usually caused by the bacterium Mycoplasma pneumoniae, that can cause discomfort and disrupt children’s routines. Understanding what it is, how it ...

Cases of mycoplasma pneumonia — also known as walking pneumonia — have been surging nationally among children, and Louisiana is in the region seeing one of the largest spikes, according to the Centers ...

Pneumonia infects millions of people every year. Cases of this highly contagious lung infection surged across all age groups in 2024, but young children were hit particularly hard. Infection rates in ...

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, ...