Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. One child died in Mecklenburg County and another was hospitalized after getting strep infections in May, according to North ...

Emma never had a sore throat. No hoarse voice, no white sores, no signs of sickness. She was a “freakishly healthy kid,” her mother said. The 7-year-old Charlotte girl hardly caught a cold since she ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. - You're probably familiar with the symptoms of strep throat. It often affects children - causing a fever and swollen tonsils and is usually cured pretty easily with antibiotics. But in ...

In February 2024, Brie Morgan Bauer, 35, was 27 weeks pregnant when her shoulders felt achy. Her husband had the flu a few weeks earlier, so she suspected she'd caught it. When she went to urgent care ...

A three-year-old girl who died at Abbotsford Regional Hospital in February had an "invasive" bacterial infection according to laboratory test results, says the Fraser Health Authority. The results are ...

HOUSTON — A 13-year-old girl from Texas is fighting for her life after what her family initially believed was the flu quickly turned into a severe, life-threatening illness that caused organ failure ...

Should infection with group B streptococcus (GBS) be considered a sexually transmitted disease (STD) the way methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is? What treatment do you recommend?

One child died in Mecklenburg County and another was hospitalized after getting strep infections in May, according to North Carolina’s Department of Health and Human Services. Both had infections from ...