North Texas Hospitals Are Seeing a Spike in Pediatric Pneumonia Cases

(WBAP/KLIF) – Cases of mycoplasma pneumonia are up about 20% from this same time last summer. Mycoplasma pneumonia is a bacterial infection that has cold-like symptom. It is most common in children over the age of five, but this summer it’s being seen in every age each group. Both doctors and hospital officials are saying that children are likely spreading the bacterial infection while in close contact at summer camps or in swimming pools.