Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A computer-generated image of a group of Gram-positive group A Streptococcus bacteria. (Jennifer Oosthuizen / CDC) Doctors should ...

A spike in strep cases in North Carolina resulted in a child’s death and another being hospitalized in Mecklenburg County. Both children had an infection from the group A strep (GAS) bacteria that ...

The pediatric strep infection has shown up in Georgia, but not all will progress to the potentially deadly illness Doctors should be on the lookout for a particular kind of invasive strep infection in ...

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. The ...

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says it's investigating an apparent increase in invasive group A strep infections, but the rise may indicate a return to typical pre-pandemic levels ...

Since September, complications from strep A infections have led to the deaths of 21 children in the UK. Now, public health officials in the US are concerned after two strep A-related deaths were ...

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is looking into a possible increase in invasive group A strep bacterial infections among children in the United States. A number of children's ...

With a dangerous and potentially deadly type of strep throat infection on the rise in Illinois, sparking warnings across the state as levels rise to their highest in years, what should parents watch ...

MARYLAND — 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 ...

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.