#walkingpneumonia — Public Fediverse posts
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Walking Pneumonia on the rise in BC https://cheknews.ca/walking-pneumonia-on-the-rise-in-bc-1222823/ “BC Centre for Disease Control #BCCDC says this year it’s seeing a return of a variant of pneumonia that affects young people.
“It’s called #walkingpneumonia because on average it’s not very serious. People can have a lot of coughing and a lot of symptoms but in terms of being life-threatening it tends not to be, and it tends to go away on its own,”
The specific organism is called #Mycoplasma Pneumonia”
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🇯🇵Japan: Mycoplasma pneumonia cases at 10-year high, 57 times higher than same period last year; infections may be spreading after COVID-19 pandemic.
Experts are calling for caution, saying, "The number of cases had been kept under control by measures against the new coronavirus, but people began going without masks, which may have led to an outbreak."
#Japan #MycoplasmaPneumonia #WalkingPneumonia
Source: https://www.sankei.com/article/20240822-WYZHEXIVL5IC3NCERBSBSNKG4Q/
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Fromm the very start, in Wuhan, Covid was infecting children and causing lung damage asymptomatically.
BREATHLESS, by David Quammen
#Covid
#Wuhan
#China
#children
#virology
#epidemiology
#pneumonia
#WalkingPneumonia