#Walking Pneumonia: Causes
The cold season is back with its tell-tale symptoms: your nose is stuffy; your throat is painful; the cough is incessant; the headache is terrible; and the muscles are sore. Is it cold, or something serious? Chances are that you have walking pneumonia. Walking Pneumonia is not as dramatic as it sounds, nor is it very severe—it is a mild form of pneumonia that will not interfere with your daily activities, and you continue 'walking ' your normal life. In fact, many assume this mellow condition to be the common cold and live in the oblivion. It occurs due to inflammation or infection in the lungs. Although anyone, irrespective of gender, age, or race can get it, it is prevalent in school-going children between 5 and 15 years. This type of pneumonia often rectifies on its own with enough rest and fluids.
##Atypical Causes
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Walking pneumonia is also called as Atypical Pneumonia because it differs from typical pneumonia in terms of symptoms and the organisms causing it, and not because it is uncommon as it affects over 2 million people in the US.[ref][Atypical Pneumonia (Walking Pneumonia)](http://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases_conditions/hic_Pneumonia/hic-Atypical-Pneumonia-Walking-Pneumonia). Cleveland Clinic.[/ref]For instance, unlike _Streptococcus pneumoniae_ (the bacteria responsible for typical pneumonia), _Mycoplasma pneumoniae_ don 't have an outer cell wall and are resilient to penicillin and common types of antibiotics.[ref][Atypical Pathogens](https://internalmedicine.osu.edu/pulmonary/cap/10677.cfm). Wexner Medical Center.[/ref] Sometimes, viruses, fungi, protozoa, certain chemicals, and physical injury also cause walking