Worcester area seeing increase in walking pneumonia and whooping cough. What to know
The other respiratory infection experts are watching closely is atypical (walking) pneumonia. Dr. Michael Hirsh, Worcester’s medical director and the chief pediatric surgeon at UMass Memorial Health, said he was told by Dr. Jean-Marc Gauguet, a diagnostic radiologist at UMass Memorial, that X-rays show a lot of kids with walking pneumonia.