The illness is known colloquially as walking pneumonia, so named because the illness rarely knocks anyone out of commission and into bed. “Developing walking pneumonia does not mean you have poor health,” Stanford University pulmonologist Mark Nicolls said in an interview with The Washington Post. “Young and healthy people develop walking pneumonia.” It is possible there are even more cases than that CDC estimate, too, as walking pneumonia is hard to diagnose. It is too soon to say with certainty if M. pneumoniae or any other given microorganism is responsible for Clinton’s pneumonia. Walking pneumonia is ultimately self-limiting, which means the disease should pass on its own, even without antibiotics.

Source: Washington Post September 12, 2016 08:07 UTC