Nationally, respiratory illness is causing a moderate number of people to seek health care, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Respiratory illnesses range from the common ...

Severe strep A infections are on the rise in children, leading to a rise in other diseases associated with strep A, which could include flesh-eating bacteria. Strep A infections can cause a host of ...

Cases of invasive group A strep are on the rise in the U.S., according to a newly published report led by CDC researchers. From 2013 to 2022, the rate of infections rose from 3.6 cases per 100,000 ...

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GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital is seeing an increase in strep A infections and has had recent deaths in West Michigan children. Invasive group A strep infections are ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday alerted the medical community to an increase in pediatric cases of invasive group A strep infections. Group A streptococci are the same ...

Doctors should be on the lookout for a particular kind of invasive strep infection in children that can result in so-called “flesh-eating” disease and organ failure, according to health officials.

ROANOKE, Va. (WDBJ) - Public health leaders in the Roanoke City Alleghany Health Districts are monitoring cases of illnesses caused by invasive strep group A. During her public health briefing Tuesday ...

Several children's hospitals in the U.S. have detected increases in invasive group A strep infections, a severe and sometimes life-threatening illness that occurs when bacteria spread to areas of the ...