There is an unprecedented spike in walking pneumonia cases at hospitals and urgent care centers around the DMV.

The respiratory illness typically affects school-age kids, but the CDC reports a rise in cases in children aged 2-4.

Federal and state health officials tell CBS News they are tracking an increase of infections with the illness known as ...

Pertussis, also known as whooping cough, is a "highly contagious acute respiratory illness" that starts with mild symptoms, Goldstein said. Infected individuals later develop a severe cough that can ...

Dr. Zach Willis with UNC Children's explains the national rise in bacterial pneumonia cases and what parents can do to keep ...

New data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows walking pneumonia diagnoses increased nationwide in the ...

Cases of walking pneumonia are on the rise in northeastern Wisconsin. On Oct. 18, the state Department of Health Services ...

These spikes mostly target the elderly and school-aged children, however there’s also been an increase in children ages 2 to ...

As the cold weather moves in, doctors are sounding the alarm over near-record-level pneumonia cases across the country and here in the DMV.

HSC Children’s Hospital is seeing an increase in the number of kids with pneumonia. According to the hospital, many of these ...

Getty Cases of atypical pneumonia (also known as “walking pneumonia") — which is a lung infection caused by the bacteria Mycoplasma pneumoniae — are on the rise in the U.S., with children ...