{"id":7931,"date":"2024-10-22T18:50:30","date_gmt":"2024-10-22T23:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=7931"},"modified":"2024-10-22T18:50:33","modified_gmt":"2024-10-22T23:50:33","slug":"unusual-surge-of-walking-pneumonia-reported-in-young-kids-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2024\/10\/22\/unusual-surge-of-walking-pneumonia-reported-in-young-kids-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Unusual surge of &#8220;walking pneumonia&#8221; reported in young kids this year"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/walking-pneumonia-cases-children-2024\/\">CBS News<\/a> Infections with the illness known as&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/whooping-cough-walking-pneumonia-cases-vaccines\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&#8220;walking pneumonia&#8221;<\/a>&nbsp;or&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/ohio-white-lung-pneumonia-not-linked-to-china-outbreak-novel-pathogen-experts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&#8220;white lung pneumonia&#8221;<\/a>&nbsp; have been spreading at unusually high levels in young kids, emergency room data suggests, a year after a surge of such cases filled hospitals overseas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The worst rates of the illness, caused by the bacteria Mycoplasma pneumoniae, are in young children ages 2 to 4 years old, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention figures shared with CBS News.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Since late spring, the number of infections caused by<em>\u00a0M. pneumoniae\u00a0<\/em>has been increasing, especially among young children,&#8221; the CDC said in a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/ncird\/whats-new\/mycoplasma-pneumoniae-infections-have-been-increasing.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">statement\u00a0<\/a>Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/walking-pneumonia-cases-children-2024\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CBS News Infections with the illness known as&nbsp;&#8220;walking pneumonia&#8221;&nbsp;or&nbsp;&#8220;white lung pneumonia&#8221;&nbsp; have been spreading at unusually high levels in young kids, emergency room data suggests, a year after a surge of such cases filled hospitals overseas. The worst rates of the illness, caused by the bacteria Mycoplasma pneumoniae, are in young children ages 2 to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emerging-infectious-diseases"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7931"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7932,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7931\/revisions\/7932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}