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

Scientists have discovered how some children develop natural immunity to a bacterial infection, a vital breakthrough which ...

UPMC Children’s Community Pediatrics reports strep throat and hand, foot and mouth this week. They’re also seeing an increase ...

New research from the University of Sheffield and the MRC Unit The Gambia at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical ...

Using this scoring tool, an adult with a sore throat but without changes to the tonsils or lymph nodes, without a fever and with a cough has only a 1 in 40 chance, or 2.5%, of having strep throat.

These elements “get lodged in the crypts, which are small ‘pockets’ in the tonsils.” Dr. O’Leary says tonsil stones are fairly common, particularly in young adults. Harvard Health reports that up to a ...

Strep throat is caused by a bacteria called streptococcus. Strep threat most frequently occurs among school-age children but can occur at any age, according to the Delaware Division of Public Health.

Strep throat normally does not include a cough or runny nose. Scarlet fever also tends to involve a red, sore throat, and the child may have a whitish coating on the tongue that progresses to a ...

When strep throat is left untreated, a person can stay contagious for two weeks, and the infection can cause serious complications, such as ear or sinus infections, abscesses, rheumatic fever and ...

Strep throat is caused by a bacteria called streptococcus. Strep threat most frequently occurs among school-age children but can occur at any age, according to the Delaware Division of Public Health.