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Pneumonia, a common lung infection, can be caused by multiple sources, including bacteria, viruses, fungi, and parasites. ... cases have risen from about 1% to over 7% in 2 to 4-year-olds and from ...
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control announced an increase in pediatric cases of “walking pneumonia” A spike happens “every couple of years,” Dr. Matthew Isaac Harris, pediatric emergency ...
In previous years, most walking pneumonia infections were observed in school-aged children and young adults. Last year, after a prolonged period of low infections since the start of the Covid ...
[12] [13] Rates are greatest in children less than five, and adults older than 75 years. [12] It occurs about five times more frequently in the developing world than in the developed world. [12] Viral pneumonia accounts for about 200 million cases. [12] In the United States, as of 2009, pneumonia is the 8th leading cause of death. [24]
There are roughly 450 million cases of pneumonia every year. Of those case, viral pneumonia counts for about 200 million cases which includes about 100 million children and 100 million adults. [14] Viral pneumonia is more prevalent in the very young, less than 5 years old, and in the very old, more than 75 years old. [14] Developing countries ...
It is the most common bacterial pneumonia found in adults, the most common type of community-acquired pneumonia, and one of the common types of pneumococcal infection. The estimated number of Americans with pneumococcal pneumonia is 900,000 annually, with almost 400,000 cases hospitalized and fatalities accounting for 5-7% of these cases. [2]
For the week ending Nov. 2, the latest for which CDC data is available, 2.8% of all pneumonia-associated ED visits led to an M. pneumoniae diagnosis, up from just 2% at the end of September.
The pneumonia is caused by tiny Mycoplasma pneumoniae bacteria and cases are spiking this year, particularly among preschool-age children, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and ...