A massive effort to test pregnant women for a deadly germ they can spread to their babies has yielded a bad surprise -- a high rate of wrong test results that led some infants to miss out on treatment ...

WASHINGTON -- Drug-resistant germs are on the rise in the United States and experts predict a sharp jump in the strains of a dangerous form of strep that can overcome two common antibiotics. By the ...

Doctors today presented more evidence that it's time for long-time antibiotic stalwarts like penicillin and amoxicillin to step aside when it comes to the treatment of strep throat. The most common ...

Scientists hunting a vaccine to protect newborns from a severe infection not only found a promising candidate, they developed a new way to speed the search for vaccines against other hard-to-fight ...

Aimee Copeland, a Georgia grad student, is fighting for her life because of the flesh-eating bacteria that infected her after she gashed her leg in a river two weeks ago. One of her legs was amputated ...

WASHINGTON — The doctor doesn't think your sore throat is bad enough yet to order a strep test — unaware that a dozen people across town were diagnosed with strep throat just last week. Doctors rarely ...

If COVID and RSV weren’t enough, there is now a high level of concern for strep throat. Although strep throat can occur at any time of the year, here in Colorado, cases occur quite frequently during ...

An invasion of the blood stream by the germ called Streptococcus haemolyticus may be one of the most dreadful diseases that can befall a human being. The germ, breeding in the blood, destroys the red ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Illinois' top doctor is warning about cases of strep throat in children. Illinois health officials issued an alert about a rise in dangerous strep throat cases, with at least five ...

Dear Dr. Donohue - My healthy 9-year-old was just released from the hospital. She had a strep skin infection. It ate her tissues. She also had scarlet fever. This baffles me, since she didn't have ...