The Warren County Health District in Lebanon, Ohio, issued an advisory on Nov. 29, noting an "extremely high number of pediatric pneumonia cases being reported this fall season." The average age of patients is 8 years old, and case numbers were high enough to meet the Ohio Department of Health's definition of an outbreak, according to the advisory.
Lower respiratory or lung infections with mycoplasma pneumoniae are sometimes called "walking pneumonia." This is because it "tends to have milder symptoms compared to pneumonia caused by other bacteria," Dr. Ruth Kanthula, a pediatric infectious disease specialist at MedStar Health in Washington, D.C., told HuffPost.
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