A 13-year-old girl from Kerrville is fighting for her life after what her family initially believed was the flu quickly ...

Kaydin Ruiz went from the flu to a life-threatening strep infection, leading to organ failure and the amputation of three limbs.

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 ...

"I'm grateful for life," says Dylan Riley of his strep infection. "Things could be so different — my family could have been planning a funeral" Wendy Grossman Kantor is an award-winning journalist who ...

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 ...

Here’s our weekly round-up of what illnesses are spreading the most in Metro Detroit communities, according to our local ...

UPMC Children’s Community Pediatrics is seeing an increase in viral upper respiratory infections, a stomach bug, strep throat, COVID, RSV, a virus causing a high fever and rashes. WellSpan Pediatric ...

NEW YORK— The risk of contracting a potentially life-threatening invasive group A strep infection is more than twice what it was a decade ago, according to a new Centers for Disease Control and ...

The French Ministry of Health (MoH) has raised the alarm. Over the course of the last 2 weeks, at least eight children — none with identified risk factors — have been hospitalized after contracting an ...