THURSDAY, Jan. 29, 2026 (HealthDay News) — Strep throat is a common throat infection that often causes a sore throat, fever ...

Some of these create relatively mild, treatable conditions, such as strep throat. Others can lead to life-threatening infections of your blood or organs. Anyone can be affected, from babies and small ...

More than a dozen children have died from strep A this season. Here is a quick list of symptoms and other important information. By Derrick Bryson Taylor Health officials in Britain said several ...

Researchers have uncovered a crucial link between dietary zinc intake and protection against Streptococcus pneumoniae, the primary bacterial cause of pneumonia. Researchers have uncovered a crucial ...

In a recent study posted to the medRxiv* preprint server, researchers investigate the effect of colonization of the upper respiratory tract (URT) by Streptococcus pneumoniae on severe acute ...

A concerning increase in global rates of severe invasive infections becoming resistant to key antibiotics has a team of infectious disease researchers studying a recently emerged strain of bacteria ...

Meningitis is an infection of the meninges, the membranes that cover the brain and spinal cord. Bacteria called Streptococcus pneumonia cause pneumococcal meningitis. Symptoms include fever, chills, a ...

As health officials in London, Ont., try to understand what's behind an outbreak of invasive group A streptococcal infections that began more than 18 months ago, the Public Health Agency of Canada ...

The number of patients with fulminant streptococcal toxic shock syndrome (STSS) has exceeded 1,000 since January, which can cause necrosis and has a high fatality rate. This exceeds last year’s total, ...

On 26 February 2019, an Idaho couple shared a cautionary tale on Facebook that had garnered over one million shares by the time of this reporting. The post detailed a strange mark on their son’s face ...