{"id":8143,"date":"2024-11-19T16:05:49","date_gmt":"2024-11-19T22:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=8143"},"modified":"2024-11-19T16:05:52","modified_gmt":"2024-11-19T22:05:52","slug":"cases-of-walking-pneumonia-up-in-d-c-region-part-of-national-trend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2024\/11\/19\/cases-of-walking-pneumonia-up-in-d-c-region-part-of-national-trend\/","title":{"rendered":"Cases of \u2018walking pneumonia\u2019 up in D.C. region, part of national trend"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/dc-md-va\/2024\/11\/15\/walking-pneumonia-cases-dc-region-young-children\/\">Washington Post<\/a> Cases of walking pneumonia have been surging among young children in the D.C. region, according to pediatricians and public health officials. Nell Codner, a 48-year-old federal worker from near Annapolis, didn\u2019t worry two weeks ago when her 10-year-old twin daughters developed a cough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWho touched what and didn\u2019t wash their hands?\u201d she recalled saying to herself, brushing it off as a fall cold or a bug going around school. \u201cTheir immune systems are built up. They\u2019re fine.\u201d But when one of the girls complained of ear pain, the pediatrician discovered a blister \u2014 a sign of walking pneumonia \u2014 and prescribed an antibiotic. The illness cleared up with medicine, and the girls were back to their rambunctious selves within days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/dc-md-va\/2024\/11\/15\/walking-pneumonia-cases-dc-region-young-children\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" style=\"display: none;\" title=\"axDT YvGDy U Lf\">axDT YvGDy U Lf<\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington Post Cases of walking pneumonia have been surging among young children in the D.C. region, according to pediatricians and public health officials. Nell Codner, a 48-year-old federal worker from near Annapolis, didn\u2019t worry two weeks ago when her 10-year-old twin daughters developed a cough. \u201cWho touched what and didn\u2019t wash their hands?\u201d she recalled [&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-8143","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\/8143","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=8143"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8144,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8143\/revisions\/8144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}