New York. America's Washington D.C. Cases of pneumonia among small children are increasing in the area. Pediatricians and public health officials said that very mild symptoms of this disease are being seen in those children.
“There is an increase in cases of 'walking pneumonia' due to the spread of bacteria called Mycoplasma pneumoniae,” Xinhua news agency quoted the Washington Post as saying.
This pneumonia has been named 'Walking Pneumonia' because the condition of the patient is not serious. Very mild symptoms of this disease are seen in him. At the same time, in common pneumonia, there is high fever and the patient may also need to be admitted to the hospital.
Mycoplasmarelated cases among children presenting to emergency departments have increased across the country in a sixmonth period ending in early October, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
The infection typically affects schoolage children, with the CDC finding that the incidence of the disease has increased by one to seven percent among children ages two to four. At the same time, the cases of disease in children aged five to 17 years have increased by four to seven percent. August data shows that cases of walking pneumonia have increased in these age groups.
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