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 ...

Linda Yancey, MD, is a board-certified physician in infectious disease and internal medicine with over two decades of experience practicing in Texas. She completed her residency at Mayo Clinic in ...

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 ...

With fall here and winter in sight, it’s slowly getting more chilly. You know what that means—more illnesses getting passed around bacteria and viruses have started to pass from person to person. That ...

More than 900,000 Americans become infected with pneumonia each year, and walking pneumonia (also called atypical pneumonia) is on the rise in the United States, especially in children. It’s important ...

Kaiser Permanente confirmed that its Santa Clara, California, medical center had treated over a dozen Legionella cases, a ...

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 ...

Whooping cough, medically known as pertussis, is a highly contagious bacterial infection that affects the airways. It gets ...