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Children's doctors reporting unusual increase in walking pneumonia cases in Canada

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Children's doctors reporting unusual increase in walking pneumonia cases in Canada .

Mycoplasma pneumonia, known informally as walking pneumonia, can have symptoms similar to the flu, cold and other common respiratory illnesses.

The disease is common in children and it’s usually a milder form of pneumonia, but more of them are getting a serious form of it.

B.C. is seeing more walking pneumonia infections than in previous years .

In Winnipeg , HSC Children’s Hospital is seeing a "significant increase" in the number of pediatric patients with pneumonia this fall .

In Halifax , a major women's and children's hospital reported it has also seen walking pneumonia cases jump.

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