This spike has raised concerns among health professionals.

Doctors say they are seeing a significant uptick in the amount of people, especially children, with the bacterial infection.

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

Global measles cases surged by more than 20% to an estimated 10.3 million last year, the WHO and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said ...

Walking pneumonia cases have been on the rise among younger children over the past six months — something that this Columbia ...

This Columbia mom started to take notice of the illness when her kids came home saying other children at school were getting ...

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 ...

Husband sues travel insurance company after it refuses to pay because it determined his wife could have been treated in ...

A Belgian sheep that has not been sheared for five years cannot have its wool removed in case it catches pneumonia. The ...

Walking pneumonia is a type of atypical pneumonia most commonly caused by the bacteria Mycoplasma pneumoniae. It often ...

"In recent weeks, clinicians in Massachusetts have reported higher than usual number of pneumonia cases, particularly among children and young adults," Goldstein said. "Syndromic surveillance, using ...