Respiratory virus season has arrived, and hopefully you’re up to date on vaccinations that can help prevent infectious ...

While many cases are linked to bacterial infection - the most common type of pneumonia - during winter, viral infections also ... with simple blood tests and X-ray. What is bacterial pneumonia?

As cold and flu season rolls around, respiratory illnesses are often top of mind for many of us. Recently, terms like “white ...

It can be easy to shrug off a cough, especially during cold and flu season. Butwhen it’s accompanied by other respiratory ...

Bacterial infections from Mycoplasma pneumoniae, which can cause walking pneumonia, have surged since late spring, according ...

If you have bacterial pneumonia, you'll remain contagious until you've been on antibiotics for 24 to 48 hours. If you have viral pneumonia, you will be contagious until your symptoms subside.

Viral infection is the invasion of the body ... with pulmonary fibrosis in individuals recovering from COVID-19 pneumonia.

Aug. 6, 2024 — An AI-based analysis of over 2 million hospital visits has found that most of the time, a pneumonia diagnosis made in the hospital will change from a patient's entrance to their ...

Between 1936 and 1945, pneumonia death rates in the United States dropped approximately 40 percent with the greater availability of antibiotics. The more common viral pneumonia usually diminishes ...

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