A DNA analysis of pathogens from a pre-Hispanic mummy revealed the bacterium that causes strep throat was present in the ...

Department of Health officials said the overall risk to the public remains low, but early treatment is important.

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.

Researchers have identified the genetic material of scarlet fever while examining a tooth from a naturally mummified skull ...

The Hawaiʻi Department of Health and Hawaiʻi District Health Office are working with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to investigate a report of high rates of a serious bacterial ...

An international team of researchers have, for the first time, identified the bacterium behind scarlet fever in a pre-Columbian mummy in Bolivia. By reconstructing the genome of this centuries-old ...

Some of the newer COVID-19 variants (like Cicada COVID or BA.3.2) cause razor-like throat pain, but so do other illnesses.

"My sore throats, you know, are always worse than anybody's." So declares Mary to Anne in "Persuasion," Jane Austen's 1817 book. Most of us can relate to this feeling. There is no such thing as "just ...

“My sore throats, you know, are always worse than anybody’s.” So declares Mary to Anne in “Persuasion,” Jane Austen’s 1817 book. Most of us can relate to this feeling. There is no such thing as “just ...

A rare complication from a strep throat infection resulted in a Michigan-based man needing amputations, according to a WKRN report. The man went to the emergency room at Grand Rapids, Mich.-based ...