Though M. pneumoniae is estimated to infect as much as 1% of the US population each year, the CDC issued an alert this fall noting that infections increased in late spring (across all age groups but ...

Walking pneumonia is a non-medical term for an atypical, mild form of pneumonia that can feel much like the common cold. The ...

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 ...

Editor’s note: Find updated information about winter viruses circulating North Carolina here. With COVID, flu and RSV season in full swing, there’s another respiratory virus North Carolinians should ...

It started with what seemed like a run-of-the-mill cold. My three-year-old had a cough that wouldn’t go away, a fever that barely counted as one, and he stopped sleeping through the night. As a ...