Aracri said walking pneumonia can be treated with an antibiotic, and recovery is usually quick, but the cough can last up to three weeks. "Your physician will look at you, [and] see if you've had ...

People with bacterial pneumonia can have wheezing, rales, rhonchi, and pleural rub. People with viral pneumonia may only have a dry cough. Congestion in your lungs is usually due to mucus or swelling.

“Walking pneumonia is a layman’s term for a type of pneumonia that, in medical terms, we call atypical pneumonia. That just means that they [the patients] don't follow the sort of normal ...

If you or your kid has a cough that's been lingering, it could be a case of walking pneumonia. Cases are rising across the U.S. The good news — it's usually mild and easily treated. Here's how.

Some hospitals in the U.S. are seeing an increase in RSV and higher levels of "walking pneumonia" among young children despite overall respiratory illness activity remaining low nationally.

Infections with the illness known as "walking pneumonia" or "white lung pneumonia" have been spreading at unusually high levels in young kids, emergency room data suggests, a year after a surge of ...

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 ...

Cases of so-called "walking pneumonia" are spiking across the U.S., the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has alerted. The highly contagious infection has primarily affected young ...

Pneumonia is the most frequent cause of nonobstetric infection [] in the pregnant patient. Although infrequently seen in this setting, even by the hospital-based pulmonologist, pneumonia ...

Pneumonia can cause fluid to build up in the chest cavity. This fluid may become infected. If this happens, you will need to have the fluid drained or removed through surgery.

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Intensive care units at Cleveland-area hospitals have been at near capacity for weeks, and part of the reason may be a surge in pneumonia and other respiratory illnesses. The ...

[and] see if you've had any contacts that may have had this type of pneumonia. They'll do a physical exam to listen to your lungs, listen for what we call rales and rhonchi fluid in the lungs.