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

Children’s hospitals across the country are seeing an unusual increase in the number of serious and more complicated cases of walking pneumonia affecting much younger patients, according to medical experts. Dr. Earl Rubin says he’s seeing more children who are needing treatment for walking pneumonia at the Montreal Children's Hospital. The disease is common in children and it’s usually a milder form of pneumonia, the division director of pediatric infectious diseases said, but