Winters worsen sore throats by exposing you to dry air and increased allergens. Cold weather irritates your throat, while ...

Strep throat (medically known as streptococcal pharyngitis) is an infection that happens when bacteria called Streptococcus pyogenes (group A Streptococcus) infect your throat and tonsils.

Since strep throat is a bacterial infection, health care providers treat it with antibiotics. Call a health care provider if you or your child is not feeling better after taking antibiotics for 48 ...

His advice comes as the NHS has warned of the potential for a “quademic” in the UK, with rising cases of flu, norovirus, ...

Several other infectious illnesses are making the rounds too, including the viruses that cause the common cold and bacteria ...

A protein found in the blood of Australian oysters could help in the fight against antibiotic-resistant superbugs, according ...

Parents have been asking me some painful questions about strep throats and why we need to treat them with antibiotics. Well, I don’t want this condition to be sorely missed by anyone, so I shall share ...

Parents have been asking me some painful questions about strep throats and why we need to treat them with antibiotics. Well, I don’t want this condition to be sorely missed by anyone so I shall share ...

Practicing and retired medical providers met Thursday with a professor of biomedicine from Eastern Mennonite University to ...

Mutations — distortions in bacterial genetic material — can cause bacteria to acquire proteins that pump the antibiotic out ...

Crumbaker's 6-year-old son, Jackson, is hospitalized at Boston Children's Hospital with RSV, strep throat, and pneumonia ... Where then, a bacterial infection can kind of say, 'Hey, this sounds ...

That means that people who are infected can spread the bacteria by talking, coughing or sneezing. It takes about two to five days after exposure to become ill with strep throat, according to the CDC.