Experts say the Ohio outbreak is unrelated to pneumonia outbreaks in China and Europe. Although pneumonia cases are rising in Ohio, experts say the number of cases isn't out of the norm.

However, another disease is also quietly rising in number of infections: walking pneumonia. The respiratory infection, while generally mild, can be severe in some cases, especially among young ...

What causes pneumonia? Pneumonia is caused by bacteria, viruses or fungi, "but usually when people are thinking of pneumonia, they are thinking of the kind caused by bacteria," says Diuguid-Gerber.

Bacterial pneumonia cases are on the rise in young children, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Pneumonia, a common lung infection, can be caused by multiple sources ...

Young children are increasingly being infected with bacteria that can lead to the illness known as walking pneumonia. A hallmark symptom is a cough that starts out dry, but eventually produces ...

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

The front-line antibiotics that treat most kinds of pneumonia don’t work for Mycoplasma infections. For those, doctors need to prescribe a different kind of antibiotic, typically azithromycin or ...

Pneumonia was a primary diagnosis in more than 1.4 million visits to U.S. emergency rooms in 2021, and more than 40,000 people died from it in 2022, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease ...

OHIO, USA — Ohio is the first state in the nation to report an outbreak of pediatric pneumonia cases. In Warren County, just north of Cincinnati, health officials have declared an outbreak of ...