Strep infections are most well known for causing strep throat, which can be treated with antibiotics. But this type of bacteria can also cause more serious illnesses—even flesh-eating infections. Here ...

After plummeting during the COVID pandemic in 2020 and 2021, strep throat infections skyrocketed in February 2023, according to a report from Epic Research, a health analytics firm. The rate of ...

At UPMC Children’s Community Pediatrics this week, providers are seeing hand, foot and mouth disease, strep throat, viral upper respiratory infections and human metapneumovirus. Human metapneumovirus ...

NEARLY LOST THEIR THREE-YEAR-OLD TO AN INFECTION THAT OFTEN APPEARS TO BE JUST LIKE A COMMON COLD DOCTORS SAY THERE IS ACTUALLY AN INCREASE IN KIDS CATCHING GROUP A STREP AND GETTING INCREDIBLY SICK ...

New research from France shows that infections cause by Group A Streptococcus (GAS) fell by 80% as the first COVID lockdown took effect in March 2020 and stayed at low levels until March 2022, from ...

The number of invasive group A strep infections in children has risen to levels not seen since before the COVID-19 pandemic began, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says. MORE HEALTH ...